in reply to Echo off in IO::Sockets

OK, at first I had a reply here.
But with the aid of some fellow monks, I noticed something.
GoRN, that line looks a little fishy. What do you mean by you give an error and log it?
Log what? Username? Password? Error?
I have to say, thank god you weren't here when I posted the reply and that the others convinced me in time.

Do not use perl for bad! Perl is good, not evil. Go somewhere else and with another language.

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RE: RE: Echo off in IO::Sockets
by Ozymandias (Hermit) on Aug 06, 2000 at 03:11 UTC
    mt2k:

    This is not meant as a personal attack or criticism.

    But. You are assisting someone in breaching security. I am an experienced systems administrator, so are several of the people here, including jjhorner. If ANYONE, including one of my admins, tried to do something like this, they would be fired so fast they wouldn't even notice the gunshot wounds. There is NO legitimate reason for doing what this person describes. It has nothing to do with their username, as evidenced by the fact that I can't remember what it is right now. It has everything to do with their description of what they are attempting to do. If they have a legitimate reason for doing this, I challenge THEM to provide one, and if they do provide one that I feel is acceptable, THEN I will help them. Not before.

    - email Ozymandias
RE: RE: Echo off in IO::Sockets
by mdillon (Priest) on Aug 06, 2000 at 03:00 UTC
    i think the issue is that he says he wants to "replace" telnet with a telnet-like client that always fails and stores the login/password entered.

    correction: i see now that he doesn't mention logging anything but the error. my mistake. however, it seems to be saying that it would intentionally generate an error in a non-error situation and then log it, which makes no sense.