Bug#60984: [caspian@twu.net: Bug#60984: (no subject)]
Hmm. Would you like an account on the system in question?
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> [Herbert - did you mean to send this to control? Or did you BCC it?]
>
> I can't reproduce this on a current potato PowerPC system, with the
> same telnetd. What kernel/libc6 are involved?
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 01:20:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > reassign 60984 libc6
> > quit
> >
> > It looks like openpty on PowerPC's don't work as a normal user, even when
> > devpts is present.
> > --
> > Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )
> > Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
> > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:18:08 -0600 (CST)
> > From: Caspian <caspian@twu.net>
> > Subject: Bug#60984: (no subject)
> > To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> > Reply-To: Caspian <caspian@twu.net>, 60984@bugs.debian.org
> >
> > Package: telnetd
> > Version: 0.16-3
> >
> > On Debian/PowerPC (I'm running on a PowerMac), I can RSH into the box
> > (here named "wozniak") just fine, but when I try to telnet in, I get:
> >
> > murphy:~# telnet wozniak
> > Trying 10.0.4.16...
> > Connected to wozniak.greatfox.net.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > telnetd: getpty: Permission denied
> > .
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > murphy:~#
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> > HOWEVER... if I set /usr/sbin/in.telnetd setuid root, it works. Since
> > in.telnetd is NOT setuid root on my x86 Debian boxen, I'm curious as to
> > why I must set it setuid on the PPC...
> >
> > --Caspian
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