Re: bin/38175: comsat misunderstands NetBSD 4.0 ptyfs PTY names

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:40:02PM +0000, eravin%panix.com@localhost wrote:
 > We get these messages in syslog instead of successful notifications:
 > 
 > Mar  5 08:40:39 logsources@panix5/166.84.1.5 comsat[12662]: '/' in 
 > "/dev/pts/51"
 > 
 > I believe this is the code at fault in comsat.c:
 > 
 >     248     if (strncmp(cr, "pts/", 4) == 0)
 >     249         cr += 4;
 >     250     if (strchr(cr, '/')) {
 >     251         /* A slash is an attempt to break security... */
 >     252         syslog(LOG_AUTH | LOG_NOTICE, "Unexpected `/' in `%s'",
 >     253             ep->line);
 >     254         return;
 >     255     }

Well, yes and no. The problem looks to be that the utmp file has
"/dev/pts/51" in it (in the ut_line field) instead of just "pts/51",
which is what would normally be expected.

What do you see as the tty names when you run /usr/bin/who? And what
program are you using to "log in" on these ttys that leaves it set
this way? (sshd? xterm? kterm? gnome_terminal? ...?)

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost