Re: PPC login puzzle

2007-04-01 Thread Steve Iribarne (GMail)
On 3/31/07, Charles Krinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me thing you can do is find out why the telnet session is being rejected. Have you done an ethernet capture? snip It is interesting that 'telnet localhost' fails in a similar way as telnet across the Ok.. This tells me it's

Re: PPC login puzzle

2007-03-31 Thread Steve Iribarne (GMail)
snip... 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. Seems to me thing you can

RE: PPC login puzzle

2007-03-31 Thread Charles Krinke
Seems to me thing you can do is find out why the telnet session is being rejected. Have you done an ethernet capture? Do you have any firewalling setup? In that case you need to make sure your rules are setup properly. The ethernet capture should give you a clue. Are you sure the telnetd

Re: PPC login puzzle

2007-03-31 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: 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? Different settings of disable = ... in the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet config

PPC login puzzle

2007-03-30 Thread Charles Krinke
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