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Date:      15 Nov 2001 01:04:14 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        cperciva@sfu.ca
Cc:        Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: login: chmod(/dev/tty??): No such file or directory
Message-ID:  <xzppu6kaoht.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20011114234332.00aefb90@popserver.sfu.ca>
References:  <5.0.2.1.1.20011114234332.00aefb90@popserver.sfu.ca>

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Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> At 15:42 14/11/2001 -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> >Saw this in last night's logs:
> >
> >Nov 13 15:56:13 taz3 login: chmod(/dev/tty??): No such file or directory
> >Nov 13 15:56:13 taz3 login: chmod(/dev/tty??): No such file or directory
> >
> >... anyone else seen this kind of thing?
>    This happens if login is run without being bound to a pty; the most
> common example of this is using scp to a machine which has 'UseLogin
> yes' set in sshd_config.

This is clearly a bug in login(8) (albeit a minor one).  Brian, could
you please file a PR about this and notify me when you get the PR
number back from GNATS?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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