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From: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) Date: Fri, 20 May 94 15:31:37 GMT Message-ID: <94May20.152221.13376@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> Reply-To: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!unlisys!harvey!y.z!x References: <94May18.154450.18864@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> Organization: Nora's UNIX Archive Berlin, Germany, Private Site X-Newswriter: [pnews V1.0.0a], Nora's own news handler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: root login on console only? Lines: 32 in article <2res0f$lge@news.tamu.edu>, from 19 May 1994 05:04:15 GMT, hickman@prism.tamu.edu also known as "Dan Hickman", wrote [shortend]: [...] h@p: "Nora E. Etukudo (nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE) wrote:" h@p: ": Hello." h@p: ": How do I allow root logins on ttys other than console?" h@p: ": It's FreeBSD-1.1-RELEASE." h@p: ": I've bothered with /etc/ttys, /etc/securetty w/o luck." [...] h@p: "Simply add secure to the ttys entry. This is probably not a good idea," Yes, I know. But would like to have an xterm with a "real root" to a FreeBSD system somewhere in the local net. h@p: "though. Best option is to login as yourself and the use 'su' to become" h@p: "root." ------------------------------------------------- THANKS TO ALL, who replied here and via e-mail. ------------------------------------------------- Greetings from Berlin, Nora. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nora E. Etukudo <nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE> Joachim-Friedrich-Str. 39c +4930 8932911, 14400-V42bis, 0000-2359h D-10711 Berlin +4930 8922407, 14400-V42bis, 2245-0745h Login with nuucp (nuucp) or source () Germany Get ~/archiv/INDEX.z -------------------------------------------------------------------------