In general, it is considered a bad security risk, but if you can talk
the system administrator into adding the pty's to /etc/securetty, that
is all it takes.
For example:
ttyp0
ttyp1
ttyp2
ttyp3
...
If you have a lot of telnet activity, you might want to add more pty's.
Any root login is checked to see if the tty is on /etc/securetty; if
it's not, it's not allowed. Telnet uses the first available pty; script
and possibly other commands also use them.
Lawson
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This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Jim Woyach wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> Every time i try to login as root, my linux machine refuses my
password.
> I have to log on as a user then su.
> Does anyone know if there is a way to login directly as root thru
telnet
>
> TIA
> Jim
>
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