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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/20847: root login from trusted hosts 
Message-ID:  <200008281600.JAA69698@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR conf/20847; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/20847: root login from trusted hosts 
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:57:48 +0200

 On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:50:07 MST, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
 
 > The 6th paragraph in the DESCRIPTION section of the man page.
 > 
 >      As flag values, the strings ``on'' and ``off'' specify that init(8)
 >      should (should not) execute the command given in the second field, while
 >      ``secure'' (if ``on'' is also specified) allows users with a uid of 0 to
 >      login on this line.  The flag ``dialin'' indicates that a tty entry de-
 >      scribes a dialin line, and ``network'' indicates that a tty entry pro-
 >      vides a network connection.  Either of these strings may also be speci-
 >      fied in the terminal type field.  The string ``window='' may be followed
 >      by a quoted command string which init(8) will execute before starting the
 >      command specified by the second field.
 
 One of us doesn't understand what ttys(5) is for.  :-)
 
 I think this is a non-issue and that you haven't understood how ttys(5)
 works, or how the r-utils work.  However, since I'm aware that I'm not
 an expert in this area, I'll leave the PR open for a second opinion.
 
 :-)
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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