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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:36:50 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.3rc2: if=/etc/issue in /etc/gettytab is not respected
Message-ID:  <20010403153650.H12164@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104040038410.12194-100000@jamus.xpert.com>; from roman@xpert.com on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:39:54AM %2B0200
References:  <20010403151111.E12164@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104040038410.12194-100000@jamus.xpert.com>

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* Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> [010403 15:35] wrote:
> With enough attention and code analysis, that could be made before
> 4.3-RELEASE. There's almost two weeks left, and many people who are
> willing to test it. Me for example :)

Can you try (on -stable) to compile /usr/src/libexec/telnetd
and install it?  It looks like it's the crypto one that's not
working...


> 
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > * Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> [010403 14:53] wrote:
> > > Having this work is critical for many places that mandate a pre-login
> > > message. I suspect it would be a major problem for most US government
> > > users. It sure has messed up my plan to install 4.3 on a new name
> > > server for our network. The security people are remarkably unwilling
> > > to accept that it will be fixed soon. They want it fixed NOW.
> > >
> > > Yes, I can fix it myself by editing the source and it should be fixed
> > > in stable about 2 hours after stable is released, but many places will
> > > stick to release come hell or high water and than complain that
> > > /etc/issue is not working.
> > >
> > > While my opinion is not worth much, I do wish this could be
> > > re-considered.
> >
> > I was doing to tell you to RTFM about gettytab's alternative to
> > /etc/issue, but it looks like telnetd got pretty broken somehow in
> > both -current and -stable wrt per-login banners.  Ie, niether one
> > seems to work now. :(
> >
> > It looks like Poul-Henning and Jeroen Ruigrok were the last people
> > seen in the general vicinity of telnetd/gettytab.  Can we get a helping
> > hand here guys?
> >
> > -Alfred
> >
> 
> --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
> [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]

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