Re: [PATCH] shadow-securetty: Allow remote telnet login as root

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 03:05:11PM -0600, Franklin S. Cooper Jr wrote:
> * Need to add pts/X to the securetty file to allow remote login via telnet as root

Why do we need telnetd and specifically with root login? Isn't sshd not 
enough? Previously telnetd was enabled because we couldn't ship sshd...


> Signed-off-by: Franklin S. Cooper Jr <fcooper@ti.com>
> ---
>  .../shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bbappend       |   15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 meta-arago-distro/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bbappend
> 
> diff --git a/meta-arago-distro/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bbappend b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bbappend
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..a09c514
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta-arago-distro/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow-securetty_4.1.4.3.bbappend
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> +PR_append = "-arago0"
> +
> +do_install_append () {
> +    # Allow telnet sessions to login as root
> +    securetty_file=${D}${sysconfdir}/securetty
> +
> +    printf '\n' >> $securetty_file
> +    printf '# Allow 5 telnet login\n' >> $securetty_file
> +    printf 'pts/0\n' >> $securetty_file
> +    printf 'pts/1\n' >> $securetty_file
> +    printf 'pts/2\n' >> $securetty_file
> +    printf 'pts/3\n' >> $securetty_file
> +    printf 'pts/4\n' >> $securetty_file

You don't need to escape anything here, why not simply use "echo"?

> +
> +}
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 
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