Description of Problem: a telnet session (pts/1) will overwrite console session (tty1) in utmp AND visa versa Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): telnet-0.17-18.1 How Reproducible: every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. login to console tty1 2. telnet into server (pts/0) 3. telnet again (pts/1) 4. who Actual Results: USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT user pts/1 workstation 4:14pm 0.00s 0.02s 0.01s w Expected Results: USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root tty1 - 4:07pm 6:25 0.02s 0.01s -ksh user pts/1 workstation 4:14pm 0.00s 0.02s 0.01s w Additional Information: i'm a newbie. be kind if this is a duplicate. i searched the archives. kernel - 2.4.9-34 telnet-0.17-18.1 i'm not sure that this is the culprit. util-linux-2.11f-17.7.2 ssh works fine. only telnet is affected. Thanks Enzo
Also RedHat 7.2 and 7.3 are affected from this problem. rlogin, it has the same problem.