Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:54:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: vince@apollo.COSC.GOV (-Vince-) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: schg flag on make world in -CURRENT Message-ID: <199511272354.QAA19960@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951127141642.22740e-100000@apollo.COSC.GOV> from "-Vince-" at Nov 27, 95 02:17:25 pm
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> > > 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... 1) Your user name must be in group "wheel" (in the file /etc/group). 2) Your pty must be marked "secure". Currently, it is marked as "network", mostly because networks aren't secure. Since you can't pick your pty, you pretty much have to lett all of them in. Be sure to put "Welcome, system crackers!" in your login prompt in gettytab. 8-). The rlogin is vouchsafe, but needs a pty as well. Besides, any user on a DOS box is "root". If you allowed "rlogin", then any user on any DOS box you allowed could become any user on your machine by lying about who they are. The point in a UNIX<->UNIX peer environment is that you are at least as secure as your root password on both machines combined. Since telnet needs a pty as well, you have to have "secure" in the /etc/ttys line either way. So "rlogin" isn't an issue. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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