David Anders (prpplague) submitted this patch to allow login to work

when the device nodes are symlinks on a read only file system.

diff --git a/loginutils/login.c b/loginutils/login.c
index 3fca899c0c2ab02f723e0a808ee7cee505807efc..ee50a175a044d701532c1c7c1c55f2d9c1a9dfbe 100644 (file)
--- a/loginutils/login.c
+++ b/loginutils/login.c
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ extern int login_main(int argc, char **argv)
 #endif
 
        tmp = ttyname ( 0 );
-       if ( tmp && ( strncmp ( tmp, "/dev/", 5 ) == 0 ))
-               safe_strncpy ( tty, tmp + 5, sizeof( tty ));
+       if ( tmp )
+               safe_strncpy ( tty, tmp, sizeof( tty ));
        else
                safe_strncpy ( tty, "UNKNOWN", sizeof( tty ));