From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 29 14:13:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA25233 for current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 14:13:45 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA25221 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 14:13:35 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA21562; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:15:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:15:18 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199511292215.PAA21562@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: schg flag on make world in -CURRENT In-Reply-To: <199511292207.PAA28759@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199511290517.WAA19065@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199511292207.PAA28759@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > You can 'su' on insecure lines. You can't directly login as root on > > insecure lines. > > Paraphrased: "You can use a root password on insecure lines. You can't > directly use a root password on insecure lines." Close. You can't use the root password on insecure lines w/out at least some initial form of authentication. Nate