Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:18:12 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com, Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet root login Message-ID: <49CA6754.4030302@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <E1LmSXe-000IqH-QM@clue.co.za> References: <995845.90009.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <E1LmSXe-000IqH-QM@clue.co.za>
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Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Barney Cordoba wrote: >>> Barney, you have to make the network pseudo ttys secure, >>> like: >>> >>> ttyp0 none network secure >>> >>> Ruben >> Yes, the "its not a good idea" is dependent on whatever other >> security you have in place. Having to log in twice to a test >> machine on a secure internal network is an unnecessary annoyance. >> The concept that every FreeBSD box in existence is publically accessible >> is one of those ASSumptions that people should leave at the door. >> >> Ruben, the method you cite no longer works in -current as they've >> changed things once again (which happens way too often when your CEOs >> are a bunch of bearded academics :) >> >> I'm not sure if its the pty (the login terminal shows as pty/0 and >> no longer ttyp0), or if its some PAM thing. Its rather annoying. >> Such things as >> >> pty/0 none network secure >> pty0 none network secure >> >> equally don't work. And I see no mention in any document as to how it >> would be achieved with the current > > Then use ssh and set "PermitRootLogin yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config this doesn't work if you are usinf a set of machines run from a central machine using nc (netcat) to do scripted i/o through a telnet session on the other machines (for example). The advantage of telnet is you can pipe nc straight into it. > > Ian > > -- > Ian Freislich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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