________________________________ From: Bill Gatliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 8:53 PM To: Charles Krinke Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: PPC login puzzle
Charles: Charles Krinke wrote: > I have 2 targets, both kernel.org linux-2.6.17.11. Both are currently using > rootfile systems from montavista's 2.6.10 distribution. One is a PPC8241 and > the other is a PPC8541. > > On the 8241, I can login with a telnet session as root. On the 8541, I > cannot. On both, I can login at the serial terminal as root with no passwd. > > Neither as a password for root in /etc/passwd. That is, the first line in the > passwd file says "root::0:0:root:/root/bin/bash". > > Being toasters, I dont want a password to cook my toast. > > The question is: > > "What are the various things that might cause one toaster to be able to login > from a telnet session and another, very similar one to not be able to do > this?" > Are their /etc/securetty files identical? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, that that is another part of the puzzle as both the /etc/securetty and the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet files are identical in both root filesystems. So, there must be some ither file somewhere keeping me from cooking my toast with a telnet login to the 8541. Charles _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
