Bug 62840 - pam doesn't work with symlinks in /etc/securetty
Summary: pam doesn't work with symlinks in /etc/securetty
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: pam
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-06 01:12 UTC by hjl
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-21 13:47:47 UTC

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Description hjl 2002-04-06 01:12:14 UTC 
If you put a symlink from /dev in /etc/securetty, like

# cd /dev
# ln -s ttyS0 ttyFOO
# grep -v ttyS0 /etc/securetty > /tmp/securetty
# echo ttyFOO >> /tmp/securetty
# mv /tmp/securetty /etc

root can't log in on /dev/ttyS0 even though
ttyFOO is in /etc/securetty
Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2004-10-21 13:47:47 UTC 
This can be viewed as a feature - you are not logging in from ttyF00
but from ttyS0, so ttyS0 should be in securetty not ttyF00.
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