PPC login puzzle

[Charles Krinke]

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From: Bill Gatliff [mailto:bgat at billgatliff.com]
Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 8:53 PM
To: Charles Krinke
Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
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.

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Bill Gatliff
bgat at billgatliff.com <mailto:bgat at billgatliff.com> 


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