Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:07:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: schg flag on make world in -CURRENT Message-ID: <199511292207.PAA28759@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511290517.WAA19065@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Nov 28, 95 10:17:45 pm
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> > Only if they need to su to root after they come in. What normal user > > comes in from outside the firewall and su's anyway? > > All of the folks who do root work on freefall, and David's work on > wcarchive. Hopefully, these folks use encrypted telnet/rlogin. > > Setting pty's secure is a silly thing to do in any situation unless, as > > is allowing user's to su from unsecure lines. > > You can 'su' on insecure lines. You can't directly login as root on > insecure lines. Paraphrased: "You can use a root password on insecure lines. You can't directly use a root password on insecure lines." 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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