On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 05:14:47PM -0500, Brian White wrote: > I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every > connection attempt failed until I modified /etc/inetd.conf to say "root.root" > instead of "telnetd.telnetd". > > The user and group telnetd exist, and telnetd belongs to the utmp group. > Is there something else that needs to be set? There doesn't seem to be > any mention of this in the telnetd manpage, nor is there any other > documentation. > > Any ideas? Thanks!
The problem is that the new telnetd requires you to have Unix98 ptys or it won't work as you've observed. Tradition ptys must be operated as root. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
