It's possible that your Dlink router has a subset of a Telnet server functions.
I don't think you will ever see a password "in clear", through a Telnet server, as they don't have a password function per see, but rather piggy back on the box's password function. Furthermore, I don't think passwords would be stored "in clear" on the box, just for the reason so they could not be seen "in clear", if someone dumps or has access to the router's RAM.
You had a second question which seemed to be an echoing of the characters you're typing, with an Uppercase to Lowercase conversion, combined with the "anticipation of what you type" based on previous words that you've typed. It;s not clear if this comes through the use of Telnet or not. Telnet has a feature of enabling/disabling Upper case and Lower case, depending on which there is an automatic Uppercase to Lowercase conversion. The "anticipation of characters typed previously" - the latter - is a feature in some browsers, that can be disabled by reconfiguring Properties. All you have to do, is type the full word to override the "anticipation".
airtren
Originally Posted by
Mr Optimistic
In a vain attempt to see if I can increase the wireless power of my dlink router (yes MB, I know - I will buy a proper router just as soon as I have broken this one) -an option that was in an earlier firmware release but has now disappeared from the gui- I stumbled about with telnet commands.
One command showed me my ISP password and another seemed to want to show the encryption keys. Here in the countryside I can use an open network so no keys were disclosed. Am I to believe that the telnet command would have displayed the unencrypted key values ?