On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 04:05:11PM -0400, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> Afternoon:
> I apologize for this being off-topic. Anyone here know what needs to
> allow a root login for telnet on a Solaris 2.7 machine? If not, does
> anyone know of a good mailing list to post Solaris questions too? Thanks.
You'll get the same answer that you would for the same question
if it was for Linux. As it so happens, since RedHat and Solaris both
use pam, that's not that outlandish, even if I was going to directly
answer your question. I'm not. I'm going to try and help you do what
you want to do (get a root connection to a Solaris system) but not help
you do it how you want to do it.
What you are asking is very bad security practice. For one thing,
if you have root access to this box already, why not set up and install
ssh for secure access. Then you can use RSA key authentication or even
use your root passwords without fear of it being sniffed or compromised.
OpenSSH works just fine on Linux and on Solaris. No clear text passwords
and the sniffers can just go blow themselves. They won't even be able to
tell if you are logging in as root or some lowlife shmuck.
Using telnet, when better, more secure, alternatives exist is
bad practice. Using telnet for root, is just asking to get your butt
kicked.
If you insist on being cybernetically suicidal, read up on PAM.
It has what you need to know. Nuf said.
> - Mike
Mike
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