k2ph@cbnewsj.att.com (The QRPer) (06/13/90)
I just put up a 3B2/400S60 with SVR3.2 with an old AT&T 4425 terminal as the console and am getting some strange things happening. Non-root users cannot change their passwords from the console (it simply says "Sorry"). If you login as root on the console and attempt to change password, it will select a password for you without asking for input! In addition, the break and delete keys don't seem to work either. Oh yes, non-root users also cannot su to root from the console. You get the same "Sorry" message. From other ports, everything works fine. I know it must be something simple--so what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. -- ========================================================================= Bob Schreibmaier K2PH | UUCP: att!oblivion!k2ph or k2ph@oblivion.att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories | ARPA: k2ph%oblivion@att.arpa Lincroft, N.J. 07738 | ICBM: 40o21'N, 74o8'W
jlw@lzga.ATT.COM (Joe Wood) (06/14/90)
In article <1990Jun12.202556.26120@cbnewsj.att.com> k2ph@cbnewsj.att.com (The QRPer) writes: >I just put up a 3B2/400S60 with SVR3.2 with an old AT&T 4425 >terminal as the console and am getting some strange things >happening. Non-root users cannot change their passwords >from the console (it simply says "Sorry"). If you login as >root on the console and attempt to change password, it will >select a password for you without asking for input! The last time this happened to me I had inadvertantly removed /dev/tty which the password subroutine opens explicitly to get your password. It doesn't check the return from the open. I bet you reconfigured /dev by rm'ing /dev/tty* and re'mknod'ding. BTW this was many moons ago, but the last time I checked the sacred source, it was still doing it. Joe Wood jlw@lzga.ATT.COM