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Re: FW: potato - telnetd can't get pty?



On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:34:36AM -0400, Schulz, Martin wrote:
> 
> ... there are no stupid questions:
> strace of in.telnetd showed it accesses /dev/ptmx, and my SuSE i386
> Linux in.telnetd doesn't
> access /dev/ptmx.
> 
> crw-r-----   1 root     tty        5,   2 Jan 19  1999 /dev/ptmx
> 
> That doesn't work with telnetd.telnetd access rights!
> 
> What's wrong here, in.telnetd or the device's initial access?
> (everything's rocking with 777 for /dev/ptmx)

Change the perms back, and then "chmod 755 /"

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