PPC login puzzle

[Eric Nuckols]

>
>Are you using anything like busybox?  Which telnet are you using.  It's
>killing me because I know I have run into this same problem.  But I am old
>and I forgot what I did.  I had this problem about 3 years ago.. ugh.
>
>To me it was something with securetty or the like.  There is a config file
>that allows telnet or not.  Another thing to try is to load telnetd with
>more options.  I think there is "-a debug" you can turn on and that will
>turn on the authentication debugging... "-D report" should also help you
>out.


I had a problem like this with telnet on an older linux with busybox and 
tiny login...

my problem had to do with making sure I had /dev/ptyX created...

so I just did:

cd /dev
MAKEDEV pty

not sure if that's your problem, but it's just something else to look into..

-Eric

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