Bug 21862

Summary:	/sbin/sulogin accepts regular files as ttys
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jdalbec
Component:	SysVinit	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Dale Lovelace <dale>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	dr, rvokal
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Description jdalbec 2000-12-07 00:15:45 UTC

#touch tmp
#sulogin tmp
#cat tmp
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D for normal startup):
#

I ran into this issue when a buggy sulogin replacement (don't ask) executed
the command:
/sbin/sulogin /sbin/shutdown -h now 'REMOTE SHUTDOWN REQUESTED'
This corrupted the 'shutdown' executable to the point where it ran, but
gave strange error messages with pieces of the text of the sulogin prompt.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-31 21:30:56 UTC

Will be fixed in SysVinit-2.78-11. Thanks!