On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, James Olin Oden wrote:
> adminster the machine. Its just too easy for someone to use a sniffer and see
> those plain text passwords.
ok , I've got it - I won't login remotely as root, and I'll get ssh, but
for what's it worth, here's my setup, and if someone can figure out
I second everything said below. Logging as root and even remotely su'ing as root
over a telnet connections is a bad idea. Just so you know though, RH Linux 5.x
and greater ships using PAM (Pluggable Authentification Modules) and the default
setting for login uses the securetty module. Which me
OA>> hello.
OA>> I seem to have a problem with telneting to my machine (running RH5.2) -
OA>> sometime, I think that after I lose connection abrupty (i.e. my modem
OA>> disconnects with no prior notice) while logged in as root, I seem to lose
OA>> access to the root account - I always get the 'lo
hello.
I seem to have a problem with telneting to my machine (running RH5.2) -
sometime, I think that after I lose connection abrupty (i.e. my modem
disconnects with no prior notice) while logged in as root, I seem to lose
access to the root account - I always get the 'login incorrect' message.
o
