[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#332198: login: unable to determine TTY name, got /dev/pts/1

[Marc Lehmann]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.3-35
Severity: normal


Directly after a fresh reboot eeboot, "rsh rebooted-host" results in an
immediate connection close, and the syslog on the remote host says:

   Oct  5 06:12:36 cerebro in.rlogind: Connection from root at fuji for root
   Oct  5 06:12:36 cerebro pam_rhosts_auth[452]: allowed to root at fuji as root
   Oct  5 06:12:36 cerebro login[453]: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by root(uid=0)
 > Oct  5 06:12:36 cerebro login[453]: unable to determine TTY name, got /dev/pts/1 
   Oct  5 06:12:36 cerebro in.rlogind[452]: Closing connection with root at fuji

"/dev/pts/1" looks like a perfectly fine tty name to me. Subsequent rsh
calls work fine.

I think at least the error message should be clearer, right now it is
wrong, as it did correctly determine the tty name, and something else
failed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages login depends on:
hi  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules                0.76-23    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                0.76-23    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      0.76-23    Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

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