The file is /etc/securetty. See the manpage for securetty. Note that if
you ever are going to have a significant amount of XTerms and telnet
sessions opened at once, it's a pain to add support for root telnet since
each telnet and XTerm takes up a pty (ttyp# or pts/#) and you have to list
them all. For instance, if the tty command from an XTerm or telnet
session gives output that looks like "/dev/pts/4", and you expect that you
might possibly have 30 open telnet sessions and XTerms at once, you'd have
to add a line for the first 30 ptys (pts/0, pts/1 ... pts/29). It's
easier to su. Of course, ssh is a lot better because it's more secure
(traffic is encrypted.)
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, David Rysdam wrote:
> Most distributions turn this off by default (for obvious reasons).
> There are three main options:
>
> 1) Turn on telnet permissions for root. I was going to name the file
> that allows this, but now I can't think of it. Anyone?
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