Re: A parable on portability (was: Allowing remote root login)

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Coutu
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 19:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'd be willing to bet the software in question has hard-coded terminal > control sequences embedded in it, or, at best, that it has its own, private > database of terminal control sequences, and ignores termcap/terminfo > entirely. The term

[gnhlug-announce] SLUG meeting to night on the Evolution Mailer

2003-10-13 Thread Robert E. Anderson
Tonights talk will cover most of the functionallity of the Evolution Mail client. The meeting will be held on the UNH Durham campus Morse Hall rm 301 at 7pm. Directions can be found on the http://slug.gnhlug.org website. -- -- Robert

Re: Linux Business Proposals?

2003-10-13 Thread Brian Chabot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, at 10:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't write proposals to increase the use of Linux. Write proposals to save (or make) the company money. When appropriate, work Linux or other Free/Open Source Software into those proposals. Excellent point.

A parable on portability (was: Allowing remote root login)

2003-10-13 Thread bscott
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, at 5:20pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... It uses an ancient curses based interface ... Everything works > correctly though when connecting with a terminal emulator that only > supports telnet connections ... On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... No, t

Re: Linux Business Proposals?

2003-10-13 Thread bscott
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, at 10:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was just curious if anyone has had any success with writing a proposal > for their company to increase the use of Linux. Don't write proposals to increase the use of Linux. Write proposals to save (or make) the company money. When a

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Coutu
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:27, Jerry Feldman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yes, but can you first log in as a regular user then either su or sudo > or sux? Ah, sorry, forgot to answer that. No, the application runs as a captive login. (When you login the application s

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, but can you first log in as a regular user then either su or sudo or sux? On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:18 -0400 Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:10, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash:

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Coutu
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 17:10, Jerry Feldman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:58:45 -0400 > Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First of all, I know this isn't a great idea, but it is required > > by a specific scenario. Here's the situation

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:58:45 -0400 Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, I know this isn't a great idea, but it is required > by a specific scenario. Here's the situation: > > Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet lo

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Dan Coutu wrote: First of all, I know this isn't a great idea, but it is required by a specific scenario. Here's the situation: I thought I had made myself perfectly clear that I understand ssh is better than telnet. Due to circumstances way beyond my control I Well... to be fair (to myself) i

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Dan Coutu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet logins > to root from the LAN. I had thought that an entry in > /etc/security/access.conf would do the trick but it didn't. I also > went to /etc/xinetd.d and edited the telnet file to enable telnet.

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Coutu
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:23, Jared Watkins wrote: > Dan Coutu wrote: > > >Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet logins > >to root from the LAN. I had thought that an entry in > > > > > What about using sssh? If you can then simply enable root logins in > /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Dan Coutu wrote: Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet logins to root from the LAN. I had thought that an entry in What about using sssh? If you can then simply enable root logins in /etc/ssh/sshd_config Using telnet is a bad idea... it continues a bad habit. SSH with pa

Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Coutu
First of all, I know this isn't a great idea, but it is required by a specific scenario. Here's the situation: Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet logins to root from the LAN. I had thought that an entry in /etc/security/access.conf would do the trick but it didn't. I also wen