From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 27 15:56:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA11588 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 15:56:00 -0800 Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA11550 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 15:55:18 -0800 Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.1/8.7.1) id SAA09227; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 18:54:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 18:54:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: -Vince- cc: Joerg Wunsch , FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: schg flag on make world in -CURRENT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, -Vince- wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > > > As -Vince- wrote: > > > > > > Is there anyway to remotely login to a FreeBSD box and 'su' to root > > > to do a make world without having to do noflags schg on all the files > > > with that flag on it generated by the last make world in -CURRENT? Thanks! > > > > Why don't you just use "rlogin" and "su"? > > Does rlogin and su make any difference? I'm using ppp from Win95 > and I don't have a rlogin program, only telnet... > As long as you are a member of group wheel (/etc/group), you can su to root no matter what way you login to the machine. But you have to be a member of wheel, and you have to use su. Even on the console, you can set it up so that you can only su to root...and have it so that if someone tries to reboot into single user mode, it will force them to enter root's passwd, increasing system security even further Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc