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Date:      Thu, 04 Jul 2002 00:49:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Roberto Nunnari <nunnari@die.supsi.ch>
To:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@clari.net.au>
Cc:        Roberto Nunnari <nunnari@die.supsi.ch>, Ken Ryan <ryuken75@m-net.arbornet.org>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How can I use "root" as a telnet account?
Message-ID:  <1025736552.3d237f68b4544@mail.die.supsi.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20020629084808.X14587-100000@neon.clari.net.au>
References:  <20020629084808.X14587-100000@neon.clari.net.au>

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I believe that .rhosts is used for rsh
secure on ttys is for single mode console login.
regards

Scrive Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@clari.net.au>:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> 
> > add the host you're connecting from to /etc/hosts.equiv
> >
> > Ken Ryan wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, Everyone:
> > >    How can I use "root" as a telnet account?
> > >    It is disabled by default.
> > >    Thank you.
> 
> I think you'll find that hosts.equiv does not give root access.
> Only root's own .rhosts will do that.  But the answer you are looking
> for
> is to add the word 'secure' to the end of the entry in /etc/ttys for
> ttyp0 etc.
> 
> Danny
> 

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