From: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
To: Charles Krinke <ckrinke@istor.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: PPC login puzzle
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:53:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460DDB1F.7020106@billgatliff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F3F0A752CAEBE4FA7E906CC2FBFF57C069B6B@MERCURY.inside.istor.com>
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.
--
Bill Gatliff
bgat@billgatliff.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-31 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-29 10:39 Avoid using libm in rootfs DI BACCO ANTONIO - technolabs
2007-03-29 19:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-03-29 20:45 ` Thomas Maenner
2007-03-29 21:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-03-30 5:59 ` Thomas Maenner
2007-03-31 3:51 ` PPC login puzzle Charles Krinke
2007-03-31 3:53 ` Bill Gatliff [this message]
2007-03-31 4:02 ` Charles Krinke
2007-03-31 16:20 ` Steve Iribarne (GMail)
2007-03-31 17:06 ` Charles Krinke
2007-03-31 17:32 ` Bill Gatliff
2007-04-01 18:00 ` Steve Iribarne (GMail)
2007-04-01 22:31 ` Eric Nuckols
2007-03-31 23:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
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