Bug#2257: forwarded message from Martin Hardcastle

["Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Package: netstd? miscutils?
> Version: netstd 1.24-1, miscutils 1.3-2
>
> Below is a report from one of my users about an odd utmp-corruption
> problem.  The user uses rlogin to connect from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk
> (131.111.131.1) to chiark (131.111.131.114).  chiark has another IP
> interface, address 10.0.0.1 (set up in /etc/hosts as
> chiark.slip.local), which is being used for unrelated SLIP activity.
>
> The utmp file does in fact contain the data that who &c are
> displaying, so the bug is either in rlogind (passing the wrong data to
> login) or in login (misinterpreting its arguments and corrupting the
> utmp).

It's a little bit difficult for me to reproduce the bug. But you
should be able to find out if it is rlogind or login. If you don't
have a .rhost entry it will prompt you for a password. You can now
log in on a different session and use ps to check if the login program
is called with the correct arguments.


Thanks,

Peter

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