From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 3 21:21:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42B137B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neon.clari.net.au (neon.clari.net.au [203.8.14.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1B843E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@clari.net.au) Received: from localhost (danny@localhost) by neon.clari.net.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g644Sip27374; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:28:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from danny@clari.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: neon.clari.net.au: danny owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:28:44 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Roberto Nunnari Cc: Ken Ryan , Subject: Re: How can I use "root" as a telnet account? In-Reply-To: <1025736552.3d237f68b4544@mail.die.supsi.ch> Message-ID: <20020704142548.Q27367-100000@neon.clari.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > I believe that .rhosts is used for rsh > secure on ttys is for single mode console login. > regards You can make network terminals secure as well as console and dialup terminals by adding 'secure' to the appropriate line in ttys. hosts.equiv provides rsh passwordless login for all users EXCEPT root. Yes, .rhosts is used for rsh and works for all users including root. Cheers Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message