Allowing remote root login
Andrew W. Gaunt
quantum at lucent.com
Wed Oct 15 14:30:13 EDT 2003
I'm would also consider it to be a hack (but, it works of now) if it
works on
RH only. We have a number of debian systems here too (I run debian at home
as well). Another reason for me to further embrace ssh.
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michael.odonnell at comcast.net wrote:
>>>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.
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>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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