Bug 60 - in.rexecd doesn't work with PAM securetty authentication
Summary: in.rexecd doesn't work with PAM securetty authentication
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rsh
Version: 5.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1998-11-12 18:53 UTC by dudek
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-03-26 23:49:23 UTC
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Description dudek 1998-11-12 18:53:42 UTC 
As shipped, in.rexecd is disabled in /etc/inetd.conf.  If
you enable it, rexec will still not work because
/etc/pam.d/rexec tries to authenticate using securetty PAM
authentication (as it should), but in.rexecd does not set
the PAM_TTY item.  I believe this bug exists in RedHat 5.2
as well.  The fix is to add a call to:

(void) pam_set_item (pamh, PAM_TTY, "tty");

just before calling pam_authenticate.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-03-26 23:49:59 UTC 
Should be fixed in rsh-0.10-23.
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