Re: [NSE] Revision of telnet-brute

[nnposter () users sourceforge net]

jesper.kuckelhahn at gmail.com wrote:
> Nice. The patch fixes the error I was seeing, now giving the following
> output:
>
> ----------------------
> PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION
> 2323/tcp open telnet syn-ack Netgear broadband router or ZyXel VoIP
> adapter telnetd
> | telnet-brute:
> |_ ERROR: Password-only authentication
> Final times for host: srtt: 6776 rttvar: 4774 to: 100000
> ----------------------
>
> This is the expected output for password-only authentication, since this
> isn't supported by the script. Maybe this could be added to the
> description ?

I was contemplating to implement password-only support but I did not
want to tackle it now, due to the size of this rewrite and possibly
limited interest in the telnet protocol in general.

I did update the description as you suggested.

Cheers,
nnposter

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