... there are no stupid questions: strace of in.telnetd showed it accesses /dev/ptmx, and my SuSE i386 Linux in.telnetd doesn't access /dev/ptmx.
crw-r----- 1 root tty 5, 2 Jan 19 1999 /dev/ptmx That doesn't work with telnetd.telnetd access rights! What's wrong here, in.telnetd or the device's initial access? (everything's rocking with 777 for /dev/ptmx) Thnx. > Maybe this is a stupid question, but what's wrong with the following: > > bash-2.03# telnet osolemio > Trying 192.168.100.104... > Connected to osolemio. > Escape character is '^]'. > telnetd: getpty: Permission denied > . > Connection closed by foreign host. > > (I've also tried running manually /etc/init.d/devpts.sh) > > This is a brand new potato install. > > -- > Martin Schulz