Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:36:50 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3rc2: if=/etc/issue in /etc/gettytab is not respected Message-ID: <20010403153650.H12164@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104040038410.12194-100000@jamus.xpert.com>; from roman@xpert.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:39:54AM %2B0200 References: <20010403151111.E12164@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104040038410.12194-100000@jamus.xpert.com>
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* Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> [010403 15:35] wrote: > With enough attention and code analysis, that could be made before > 4.3-RELEASE. There's almost two weeks left, and many people who are > willing to test it. Me for example :) Can you try (on -stable) to compile /usr/src/libexec/telnetd and install it? It looks like it's the crypto one that's not working... > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> [010403 14:53] wrote: > > > Having this work is critical for many places that mandate a pre-login > > > message. I suspect it would be a major problem for most US government > > > users. It sure has messed up my plan to install 4.3 on a new name > > > server for our network. The security people are remarkably unwilling > > > to accept that it will be fixed soon. They want it fixed NOW. > > > > > > Yes, I can fix it myself by editing the source and it should be fixed > > > in stable about 2 hours after stable is released, but many places will > > > stick to release come hell or high water and than complain that > > > /etc/issue is not working. > > > > > > While my opinion is not worth much, I do wish this could be > > > re-considered. > > > > I was doing to tell you to RTFM about gettytab's alternative to > > /etc/issue, but it looks like telnetd got pretty broken somehow in > > both -current and -stable wrt per-login banners. Ie, niether one > > seems to work now. :( > > > > It looks like Poul-Henning and Jeroen Ruigrok were the last people > > seen in the general vicinity of telnetd/gettytab. Can we get a helping > > hand here guys? > > > > -Alfred > > > > --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant > [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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