[13156] in Athena Bugs
RISC/6000 console handling code breaks telnetd login prompt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Jan 30 23:57:15 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 23:57:04 -0500
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: rs6kswat@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cato is a beta machine running 3.2.5 and at the current time
xlogin; behold!
bash$ telnet cato
Trying 18.172.0.22...
Connected to cato.mit.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
MIT Athena (cato/AIX) (ttyp0)
IBM AIX Version 3 for RISC System/6000
(C) Copyrights by IBM and by others 1982, 1991.
Press [ALT] [CTRL/ACT] to switch to the XLOGIN screen.
Console login:
I see two problems there; first, I shouldn't be getting the
pty that is currently defined as the system console for login; this is
poor, and I suspect it would look interesting were I to use this as
someone logged on and actually got console running. Secondly, the
specialized prompt that says to hit alt-act should be the harold
string for /dev/hft/1, not /dev/console; /dev/console isn't a login
port under standard Athena.
--Sam
