Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 09:44:03 -0700 From: Evan Oldford <evan@whistle.com> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet sometimes gets "SRA secure login" prompt?? Message-ID: <3AF03953.A69B178F@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105021717220.56833-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Nick Barnes wrote: > > In particular, does it appear if I have installed the > > crypto distrib on both source and target of the telnet? > > Yeah - it's part of the crypto package. Worryingly, it also allows you to > telnet in (from localhost or externally) as root... totally losing the > protection gained by having the wheel group... > > Gavin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Edit your /etc/inetd.conf "-a" option (man telnetd) telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd -a off and Edit your /etc/ttys remove the "secure" entries to your Pseudo terminals -- _______________________________________________________________________ Evan Oldford * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehelp
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