Allowing remote root login

[Kevin D. Clark]

Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> writes:

> Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet logins
> to root from the LAN. I had thought that an entry in
> /etc/security/access.conf would do the trick but it didn't. I also
> went to /etc/xinetd.d and edited the telnet file to enable telnet.
> Still no joy.

Comment out the "securetty" entry in /etc/pam.d/login .

Hope this helps,

--kevin
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