On 29 Jun 01 at 10:54, Unix Systems Administrator wrote:
> By default root is not allowed to log in via remote telnet.
> How do you disable this security feature?
>
edit the file /etc/securetty and add the terminal name in the list. The
difficulty with remote telnet is it uses ttyp0, ttyp1 or something of that
variation, so it would be difficult to pinpoint exactly which virtual terminal
is assigned to a physical terminal. It's first come first serve for virtual
ttys or ptys (pseudo tty).
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