Allowing remote root login

[Jerry Feldman]

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Yes, but can you first log in as a regular user then either su or sudo
or sux?
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:18 -0400
Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:10, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:58:45 -0400
> > Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > First of all, I know this isn't a great idea, but it is required
> > > by a specific scenario. Here's the situation:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > I must be missing something else but don't know what. A search of
> > > the mail archives turned up nothing. Ideas?
> > Dan,
> > WRT: The other posts, have you been able to allow for non-root
> > logins over telnet. Then, once logged in, then use su, sudo or sux
> > to become root. 
> > 
> > You may need to add /dev/pts to /etc/securetty. 
> > But, I think you are opening up a can of worms. 
> > 
> Yes, I know it is a can of worms. Unfortunately I need to first
> solve this and then work on finding a way to solve it better.
> The problem is that the client has an application which allows
> administrative actions only when logged in as root. It uses
> an ancient curses based interface that uses strange terminal
> mapping that simple doesn't work correctly with any of the
> conventional termcap entries that I've tried. Either the
> keyboard mapping is wrong or the display gets unreadable.
> 
> Everything works correctly though when connecting with a
> terminal emulator that only supports telnet connections.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> Thanks for the help folks, sorry for the impatient reply
> to Jared earlier.
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> Dan Coutu
> Managing Director
> Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC
> http://www.snowy-owl.com
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