Re: getty and logon

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From: Rich Winkel
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 04:14

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In <1992Apr3.211816.8408@n1.nsf.gov> bryan@ad.cise.nsf.gov (Bryan Thompson) writes:
>I had a login session that dropped without the user logging out.  Ever since  
>then, I getty keeps spawning copies of login -- even after the machine has
>been rebooted.
>I keep getting messages like this in the console:
>Apr  3 16:04:16 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, log-K^BB!
>Apr  3 16:09:53 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, ach (ad.cise.nsf
>Apr  3 16:09:55 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, Password
>Apr  3 16:09:57 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, login: l
>Apr  3 16:10:04 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb,  logink+
>Apr  3 16:10:15 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, H(H(H(H(
>Apr  3 16:10:31 ad login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyfb, QloLogin

It appears that the modem is echoing getty's login prompt back to it.
The problem may go away if you toggle the power to the modem.

Rich

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