From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 19:12:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03650 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03620 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ax433.mclink.it (ax433.mclink.it [192.106.166.93]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA18335 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 13:14:03 -0700 Received: from tirm59.vol.it by ax433.mclink.it id aa02535; 29 Jun 96 22:12 CEST Message-ID: <31D58EB8.41C67EA6@mclink.it> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 22:14:48 +0200 From: Marco Masotti X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Ingham CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rlogin as root refused References: <199606291602.KAA05382@cube.i-pi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kenneth Ingham wrote: > > Do a: > man 5 ttys > for the docs. Basically, it is a security issue and controlled by the > /etc/ttys file. Honestly, I'm still feeling dubious as to the proper usage of the /etc/ttys, with respect of network secure login. According to the man page, I can set secure if the fourth field is "on". But question is on what? The second field is "none", because no getty initialises the line in that case. Also, I would assume that setting "on" a pseudo device would tend to confuse the init, that would have "none" to start with. However, I tried it out, with no success. I'll eventually keep trying later .. :-) Just for the record, as far as I remember right: in similar cases other BSD-ish systems, like SunOS, don't need the secure option in their equivalent (I think) /dev/ttytab file, despite they even lack the accessory file /etc/login.access Thanks, Marco M.