Hi Hinko,

        I have all of the pty devices set as below:

> crw-rw-rw-    1 0        0          5,   2 Jun 12  2007 ptmx
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0               0 Jan  1 01:00 pts
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   0 Jun 12  2007 ptyp0
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   1 Jun 12  2007 ptyp1
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   2 Jun 12  2007 ptyp2
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   3 Jun 12  2007 ptyp3
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   4 Jun 12  2007 ptyp4

I will try to remove shadow password. Maybe this will help.


Best Regards

Mirek


On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hello Miroslav,
> 
> Miroslaw Dach wrote:
> > Hi Hinko,
> > 
> >     I have recompiled the kernel and enabled the PTY :
> > Device Drivers ->
> >                 character devices ->
> >                                    Legacy (BSD) PTY support [*]
> >                                    Max. number of legacy PTY in use (256)
> > 
> 
> Are the /dev/ entries also in place?
> 
> crw-rw-rw-    1 0        0          5,   2 Jun 12  2007 ptmx
> drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0               0 Jan  1 01:00 pts
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   0 Jun 12  2007 ptyp0
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   1 Jun 12  2007 ptyp1
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   2 Jun 12  2007 ptyp2
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   3 Jun 12  2007 ptyp3
> crw-rw----    1 0        0          2,   4 Jun 12  2007 ptyp4
> 
> > I have reloaded the linux kernel and started the telned 
> > but I have the same messages printed on the screen:
> > 
> > Connected to ml403-mirek.pss.ch (129.128.107.50).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > 
> > I do not know if it is somehow related to the password configuration files:
> > 
> > It seems to be something not set correctly:
> > 
> > I have tried to change the password for user root:
> > 
> > passwd
> > passwd: uknown uid 0
> > 
> > passwd mirek
> > passwd: uknown uid 0
> > 
> 
> Hmm, UID 0 is supposed to be root. Can you copy the /etc/passwd from eg. 
> your host computer where you know what the password is to the target 
> computer (where telnetd is running) and then try to login?
> 
> 
> > when I inoked 
> > /bin/login
> > ml403-mirek login: mirek
> > login: no valid shadow pasword
> > 
> > Maybe the password issue is the source of the problem that telnet does not 
> > start.
> > 
> > The config files in the /etc directory look like that:
> > 
> > ls /etc
> > fstab  group  gshadow  inetd.conf  init.d  passwd  services
> > 
> 
> 
> Could be that /etc/passwd is not being read at all if /etc/shadow is 
> present. Wait a minute, your listing doesn't show /etc/shadow file?!
> 
> Have you checked that you have all prerequisites for shadow passwords? 
> I've just glanced over the loginutils/Config.in in the busybox source 
> tree. I'm not using shadow passwords so I can't be of much help if you 
> need /etc/shadow.
> 
> Also try to *not* use /etc/shadow, insted use only /etc/passwd.
> 
> In case you don't have plain /etc/passwd, I use this one, where I can 
> login on my target as follows:
> user: root
> pass: pass
> 
> /etc/passwd:
> root:AiADGkJIfIlXk:0:0:administrator:/:/bin/sh
> nobody:*:254:254:nobody:/var/empty:/bin/sh
> logout:gfr8cijmRSDck:498:506:logout:/:
> 
> Best regards,
> hinko
> 

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          Miroslaw Dach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - SLS/Controls Group 
                PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut CH-5232 Villigen
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