At 03:55 AM 5/15/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>--- Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 May 2000, Madhesh wara wrote:
>> > I think this may be a security feature. How to
>> disable it and telnet into
>> > the system as root.
>
>
>RENAME OR DELETE THE FILE securetty WHICH IS IN /etc
>DIRECTORY. RESTART
>
>REGARDS
>PINKU
>
>
>> AFAIK, you can't telnet into a system as root
>> because of security
>> considerations. But you can always su :)
>> And why do you want to telnet in as root? Isn't su
>> sufficient?
>> Devdas Bhagat
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Thanks pinku!
I faced the same problem. I have two machines of same conf. redhat 5.2
but one machine was allowing telnet as root though it has securetty file.
and other is not allowing.
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