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: > > > > 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. > > Still no joy. > > > > I must be missing something else but don't know what. A search of > > the mail archives turned up nothing. Ideas? > Dan, > WRT: The other posts, have you been able to allow for non-root logins > over telnet. Then, once logged in, then use su, sudo or sux to become > root. > > You may need to add /dev/pts to /etc/securetty. > But, I think you are opening up a can of worms. > Yes, I know it is a can of worms. Unfortunately I need to first solve this and then work on finding a way to solve it better. The problem is that the client has an application which allows administrative actions only when logged in as root. It uses an ancient curses based interface that uses strange terminal mapping that simple doesn't work correctly with any of the conventional termcap entries that I've tried. Either the keyboard mapping is wrong or the display gets unreadable.
Everything works correctly though when connecting with a terminal emulator that only supports telnet connections. Sigh. Thanks for the help folks, sorry for the impatient reply to Jared earlier. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
