Microport Status

[Norman S. Soley]

In article <259 at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
:In article <1700018 at spdyne> root at spdyne.UUCP writes:
:(referring to 386/ix)
:>[A wonderful example is the way that 'su' is
:>broke: if you su [to any user or root], from any tty other than the console,
:>it will log you off!... Might as well rm /bin/su... I tried to su to uucp once
:>to fixup the Systems file... Boom - login prompt...]
:
:I've seen this problem on 386/ix.  Any program that prompted for a password,
:be it login, passwd, or su, would log you off from a remote terminal.  I found
:putting a null modem on the serial port fixed this problem.  It seemed the
:386/ix serial drivers needed carrier detect to work properly.

Your mixing up two "problems" here, the first is supposed to be there, because
of security considerations, you can turn it off if you really want to (or so
I'm told). The second problem is an acknowledged bug (which Interactive to 
date has not seemed too interested in actually fixing) in the serial driver.

-- 
Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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