Curtis Hogg wrote: > > A friend of mine (as am I) is running Debian 2.1 that has been > dist-upgraded to woody, and while he can telnet into my machine just fine, > I cannot telnet into his, the error received states- > > telnetd: getpty: permission denied > > the permissions on his ptys and ttys and so on are the same as mine. What > do I need to do to fix this problem? TIA >
Changing "telnetd.telnetd" with "root.root" in the telnet line in "/etc/inetd.conf" solved this problem on my box. Do not ask me why! I even do not know further implications of this change, but it worked for me. -- ######################################## .'/,-Y" "~-. Vicente Torres Carot l.Y ^. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia /\ __ "Doh!" Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica i ___/" "\ Ctra. Nazaret-Oliva, s/n | /" "\ o ! 46730 Grau de Gandia (Valencia) l ] o !__./ SPAIN \ _ _ \.___./ "~\ X \/ \ ___./ Tel.: (96)2849300 ( \ ___. _..--~~" ~`-. FAX: (96)2849309 ` Z,-- / \ __. ( / ______) "I don't apologize. I'm sorry, but that's \ l /-----~~" / just the way I am." -- Homer Simpson -- Y \ / ############################################## | "x______.^ -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --