Allowing remote root login

[michael.odonnell at comcast.net]

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


Hmmm, I didn't test it but there are indeed some WWW pages
out there indicating that use of securetty has been extended
as you described, though this is apparently an RHAT-specific
hack - at least, my Debian system does not work this way.

















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