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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!slider.bme.ri.ccf.org!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!zippy.intcom.net!imci3!imci2!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!istar.net!infoshare!whome!ve3ied!noc.tor.hookup.net!nic.wat.hookup.net!news From: Thomas Schroecker <thomas@canadian-agra.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I want to enable (allow) root login via telnet/rlogin Date: 11 Jan 1996 23:09:44 GMT Organization: C.A. Project Development Corp. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4d45bo$lgr@nic.wat.hookup.net> References: <30F4BDC8.55CBA2CD@byted.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip4.sos.on.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) To: heinz@byted.com Heinz Wittenbecher <heinz@byted.com> wrote: >I'll keep on digging, but I'd sure appreciate a shortcut so that I can >spend time evaluation 2.1, rather than dig for what will be a temporary >configuration during evaluation. in the /etc/ttys file add 'secure' to whatever terminals are known as secure. This will let root login over telnet. Also you can su to root on non-secure terminals which gives at least a bit of security... (I THINK :) Thomas