Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!wizard.pn.com!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!purdue!news.bu.edu!usenet From: mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I want to enable (allow) root login via telnet/rlogin Date: 12 Jan 1996 19:17:19 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 17 Sender: mi@aldan.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Message-ID: <4d6c3v$ppr@news.bu.edu> References: <30F4BDC8.55CBA2CD@byted.com> <4d2v0h$6kl@news.hal-pc.org> <4d3v4o$e4l@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-73-27.bu.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <4d3v4o$e4l@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >] In /etc/ttys add 'secure' to the end of the ttyp(x) entries like it is for >] the ttyv(x) entries. > >or use "su -" instead of "su" to get the root environment as well. > My 5 cents, although, not _excatly_ what was asked for ;) On my machine, mi and root share the same home directory, where all the files belong to mi (to avoid permission problems with files created by root). Many of alias, environment, etc. problems went away after I set it up like this. -mi