Allowing remote root login

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

On my RH8 system I did steps 2&3 first. Alone they did not work. After then
doing step 1 it worked fine.

I only needed it to work temporarily so once working I stopped looking 
into all the
if's but's and why's since I'm going to undo it anyway. If you don't 
believe the 'rsh/rlogin'
entries in /etc/securetty are effective, try it yourself. I didn't 
believe they were valid
entries for that file either, then I tried it. Otherwise you would need 
to specifiy stuff
like pts/1, pts/2, pts/3... ad naseum.



michael.odonnell at comcast.net wrote:

>>Use the following procedure to enable them.
>>
>>1.  Add rlogin and rsh to /etc/securetty:
>># echo rlogin >> /etc/securetty
>># echo rsh >> /etc/securetty
>>    
>>
>
>
>That securetty file is only intended to be a list of
>devices from which secure logins are allowed, so I think
>it's likely that step #1 of your instructions is incorrect
>since rlogin and ssh are services rather than devices.
>
>
>  
>
>>2.  Modify xinetd's configuration files /etc/xinetd.d/rlogin and
>>/etc/xinetd.d/rsh.  Change the line from
>>       disable                = yes
>>to
>>       disable                = no
>>
>>3) Restart xinetd.
>>    
>>
>
>
>I believe your steps #2 and #3 are more likely to have
>been what did the trick.
>
>
>  
>
>>4) When done with software install, reverse process ands use ssh.
>>
>>This is our /etc/securetty did not find this documented anywhere.
>>    
>>
>
>
>Most distributions that I've used have had a man page for securetty.
>
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