Re: telnetd broken on Linux

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> writes:

    Assar> Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:
    >> Linux 2.4.x (currently 2.4.7).
    >> 
    >> devfs mounted on boot.

    Assar> Right, this is due to telnetd not being able to handle the
    Assar> (sane) mix between bsd ptys and streams ptys that is.  Can
    Assar> you test this simple patch and tell us if it works?  You
    Assar> might have to link telnetd with -lutil.

Looks fine to me:

Trying 192.168.87.132...
Connected to scrooge.chocbit.org.au.
Escape character is '^]'.
[ Trying mutual KERBEROS5 (host/scrooge.chocbit.org.au@CHOCBIT.ORG.AU)... ]
[ Kerberos V5 accepts you as ``bam@CHOCBIT.ORG.AU'' ]
Debian GNU/%s testing/unstable %h
Last login: Mon Aug  6 14:39:52 2001 from 192.168.87.132 on pts/4
Linux scrooge 2.4.7 #1 Sun Jul 29 14:50:36 EST 2001 i686 unknown

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Mon Aug  6 14:39:56 EST 2001
[501] [scrooge:bam] ~ >tty
/dev/pts/4

...and no, I didn't have to manually link in libutil.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>