Tim,
Instead of commenting out the line, you might do a bit better by copying the
line
and changing required to sufficient. I'd have to double check, but it seems
to
me that finally allows .rhosts to work properly for root, which would allow
you
to not have to even supply the password, as long as you are coming from an
authorized account on an authorized machine.... a bit less safe, but if the
machine is actually physically isolated from the net, the hacker would have
to be in your house to break in... at that point, security on the login
isn't the big concern, eh? :)
Bill Ward
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From: Timothy Lillicrap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 6:30 PM
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Subject: Re: root login over telnet
Thanks Steve, this is exactly what I was looking for : )
Timothy Lillicrap
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Steve Dixon wrote:
> edit the file /etc/pam.d/login and comment out the securetty line. it
> should be right after the first comment. then just try to telnet and
> you should be good to go.
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