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[ts-7000] Re: Telnet and FTP weirdnesses

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Telnet and FTP weirdnesses
From: "Blair" <>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:05:50 -0000
Follow-up: Apparently the kernel needs "legacy PTY support" turned on to get 
telnet to work under Debian.  A word of caution: in later kernels you can 
specify a number of pty's to create.  The default of 256 is seriously overkill 
and more than doubles the boot time.

But here's more weirdness: Telnet support under Debian is via inetd.  Under 
Busybox, it's got a separate thing.  Under Busybox, enabling telnet support 
under inetd doesn't work at all.  But if you're using the Busybox telnetd 
utility, it only wants to log in as root.  It seems to ignore the -l argument.

Now, as for FTP, there's some weird permission thing or something like that 
going on because if I log in as a non-root user, I can't see files that have a 
777 permission.  But I can upload files...which if I reboot and FTP I can't 
see.  GAH!!!!




--- In  "Blair" <> wrote:
>
> Yes, I know that...(typo or lousy font).
> 
> Things get even stranger when I boot into full Debian.
> Not only can I not telnet in at all, I get this:
> 
> Trying 192.168.15.200...
> Connected to 192.168.15.200.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> telnetd: getpty: No such file or directory
> 
> I can't FTP into it at all either and I know inetd is running.
> 
> 
> --- In  Kevin Cozens <kevin@> wrote:
> >
> > Blair wrote:
> > > When I telnet into the device, no matter what user I give it, it always
> > > logs in as root.  e.g. telnet -1 foobar 192.168.15.200
> > 
> > According to the telnet man page in Ubuntu, the option is -l (lower case L) 
> > and not the digit one (1) to specify the user.
> >
>




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