On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Jon Stanley wrote: > I was on the testing branch for awhile, then my bro took over the machine and > I lost the root password. At any rate, I now have the root passwd again and > went to do an update. Finding that there were massive things to be upgraded, > I went ahead and did them. After this, I lost telnet access into the box. > Not that big of a deal for me, I use SSH. But my bro insists on being able > to use telnet for some odd and strange reason. At any rate, the brokeness of > telnet is somewhat of a big deal. Anyhow, here is what happens: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home]$ telnet <hostname> > Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ... > Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. > Escape character is '^]'. > Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable xxx.xxx.xxx > Connection closed by foreign host. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home]$ > > There are no access controls that I know of - looking at the logs just shows > successful telnet connections. A glance at hosts.allow and hosts.deny are > unrevealing (Wouldn't get that far into it anyway, with the banner). > Manually executing /bin/login at the command line gives the expected results > and I am able to successfully authenticate. I'm not quite sure how to debug > whether login is getting called or not, or where in the process this is > dying. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I detected the same behaviour and found out after some investigations that the upgrade from libc6_2.2.3-9 to libc6_2.2.4-1 causes a segfault in /usr/lib/telnetlogin. I submitted a bug report (#109915) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Guenter -- Dipl.-Ing. Guenter Millahn Brandenburg University of Technology Systems, Network & DB Admin CS Dept / DB & IS Research Group Voice: +49 (355) 69-2272/2700 P.O. Box: 10 13 44 Fax: +49 (355) 69-2766 D-03013 Cottbus GERMANY "The real world is still far away from be led ad absurdum by the virtual one." (Hal Faber, newsreel "What happened, what will be", 08/13/2000)
