RE: [TCLUG:12313] telnet as root

[Smith Jeremy <jrsmit2@uswest.com>]

Without the security speech:

Most Linux distributions (all?) are now pam-enabled.  In your /etc/pam.d you
have a bunch of files for various authentications.
The securetty line is what makes it so that you can't telnet in as root.
You can put the various telnet virtual  tty's in the file
/etc/securetty or you can just comment out this line in /etc/pam.d/login to
allow telnet as root.

Jer

Hey,

I know it's probably not such a good idea, but how do I make it so that I
can telnet into a box as root, instead of having to come in as a user and
su?