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Re: [TCLUG:20646] Root login



That's not a "solution" though.  Sure it lets you telnet in as root, but
telneting in as root is the problem to begin with.  If any distro allowed
me to telnet in as root, I'd consider it "broken" and would "fix" it by
adding that line to /etc/inetd.conf or disabling telnet.

My $.02,

Gabe

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 02:37:00PM -0500, Troy Schmidt wrote:
> Great information as a newbie studing Linux I did not understand why I could
> not telnet in as root either, I tried Chad's suggestion and got right in.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chad Juettner <chad@bitstream.net>
> To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20646] Root login
> 
> 
> > > When I telnet to my machine from outside using the IP address,
> > > I cannot login as a root although I supply the correct password.
> > > Is there something I am doing wrong? I use "root" as login and
> > > my root password.
> >
> > Comment out the following line in /etc/pam.d/login:
> >
> > auth    required    /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
> >
> > That's what worked for me.
> >
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Gabe Turner				       |  	   X-President,
UNIX Systems Administrator,		       | Assoc. for Computing Machinery
U of M Supercomputing Institute for	       |    Univerisity of Minnesota
Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation    |       dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu

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