From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265987AbUBJR0M (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:26:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265981AbUBJRXG (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:23:06 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:32211 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266064AbUBJRTM (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:19:12 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Does anyone still care about BSD ptys? Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <20040209175119.GC1795@intern.kubla.de> <20040210111632.GA1229@intern.kubla.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1076433544 31204 63.209.29.3 (10 Feb 2004 17:19:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:19:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20040210111632.GA1229@intern.kubla.de> By author: Dominik Kubla In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Try removing you BSD pty's and most likely you will see that telnetd > happily uses System V pty's. If not then you should really update your > telnetd. Both netkit-telnetd and telnetd-ssl, which is derived from it, > can use System V-ptys since at least 5 years, probably even longer. > If both BSD and System V pty's are present on the system, the code will use > BSD. (That's why i removed the BSD pty's in the first place!) > Eep! Using BSD ptys is a security hazard. They should *definitely* not be usef preferentially. On my system (RH9) they aren't used by telnet even though they exist. -hpa -- PGP public key available - finger hpa@zytor.com Key fingerprint: 2047/2A960705 BA 03 D3 2C 14 A8 A8 BD 1E DF FE 69 EE 35 BD 74 "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh Just Say No to Morden * The Shadows were defeated -- Babylon 5 is renewed!!