Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-26 Thread Rahul Dhesi
late to be going back and changing the defaults. And root's mail should always be forwarded to a non-root user anyway. Rahul > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 99 21:31:36 +0100 > From: Ollivier Robert > To:freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Message-Id: <19990225213136.b12...@keltia.f

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:UserLogin is just a flag that is needed to enable --with-login at runtime. :It doesn't prevent failed logins when a .hushlogin file is present -- :that's a bug in sshd that will need to be fixed first. : :Rahul There is a 'CheckMail' option. You should be able to set it to NO.

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
> To:freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > Message-Id: <19990225105101.a15...@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> > Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins > On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 04:15:30AM -0800, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > > > Good idea, thanks, and I now realize that i

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-25 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Rahul Dhesi: > Good idea, thanks, and I now realize that it won't work, and neither > will changing /bin/login -- because sshd does not seem to honor either > one. The sshd in ports should honor the login.conf stuff. One of the patches adds FreeBSD as a target with login_cap.h. Look

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-25 Thread jcptch
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 04:15:30AM -0800, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > Good idea, thanks, and I now realize that it won't work, and neither > will changing /bin/login -- because sshd does not seem to honor either > one. You could try taking a look in sshd_config and setting UseLogin Yes. -- Jon Parise

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-25 Thread Rahul Dhesi
<199902250726.xaa00...@apollo.backplane.com> > Subject: Re: please don't check mail for root logins > :I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers. > : > :In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root. And > :in the case that the mail filesystem is mounte

Re: please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers. : :In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root. And :in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a :non-responding server, it hangs root logins. : :Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machin

please don't check mail for root logins

1999-02-24 Thread Rahul Dhesi
I have a suggestion for the FreeBSD maintainers. In /bin/login, please don't check for mail when the user is root. And in the case that the mail filesystem is mounted via NFS from a non-responding server, it hangs root logins. Root logins on machine A should never ever ever require machine B to