Paul Lussier wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Anyone know how to allow root to be able to telnet in to a RH system?
> 
> (yeah, yeah, I know, wicked insecure and all, but this is an R&D system, so I
> really don't care :)
> 
> Btw, I tried /etc/securettys, but now that Linux is using /dev/pts/X, that no
> longer works.

Actually the file you're looking for is /etc/securetty  Not /etc/securettys...

I wanted the same thing.  What I found worked was to append the following,
after tty1, tty2 et. al.:

1
2
3
4
5
6
...


Which correspond to /dev/pts/1, /dev/pts/2, etc.


        -- Farrell

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