On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jose Albores wrote:
>Gerry Mullins wrote:
>>
>> A coupla questions:
>>
>> 1. I know I've seen this before, but how to I enable root to login from
>> anywhere? If not on the console, it won't let root login (sure, sure, I can
>> login as myself and su.)
>>
Hum, no your assumtion is wrong.
Thesedays distributions install a /etc/securetty file _without_ root
login devices as its a potentional securety risk to have the in the
said file.
You possably use an old version of slackware which used to have
/dev/ttySX devices in its /etc/securety file, thesedays it has them
included but uncommented as follows.
# These are remote ttys, and uncommenting them might be less than fully secure:
#ttyS0
#ttyS1
etc
etc
>AFAIK, under Linux, root may login from anywhere. Maybe you have had
>experience with FreeBSD?
>You do not need to be under the "wheel" group to be able to "su" as
>root. You don't need to create a "toor" user either. Sorry if I
>misunderstood.
>
>> Thanks, Gerry
>
>Pleasure:
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>Jos� M. Albores
>Buenos Aires - Argentina
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