Thank you, adding just the numbers was the trick.
I've looked at ssh a few times before, and will most likely be implementing
it before I put this box onto any network. As well as installing
tcp_wrappers and turning off all of the "r" commands.
Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 2:37 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Root telnet from another host?
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, John Losey wrote:
> While removing /etc/securetty does allow root to telnet in, I'd like to
know
> the syntax so that I could allow for it w/o making it completely wide
open.
the securetty file expects the name of the tty, nothing more. The trick
is that Linux 2.2 (and glibc) use UNIX 98 ptys. So... your pty is
dynamically allocated, exists in /dev/pts, and has a filename that is only
a number.
If you want to telnet in as root, you have to add:
1
2
3
4
....
to /etc/securetty.
Install openssh. :)
MSG
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