Re: [TCLUG:12313] telnet as root

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:00:13PM -0600, Chad Juettner wrote:
> 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?

	People will tell you to check out /etc/securetty.  This is
obsolete advice.  It may work, but securetty is a list of the tty's that
are considered secure, not a statement of whether or not you can log in
as root from a non-secure tty.

	The non-obsolete method is to edit this file:

/etc/pam.d/login

	and modify this line:

auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so

	to say:

#auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so

Have fun (if at all possible),
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