Thanks Tanner. In this particular case I have commented out the line pam_securetty.so found in /etc/pam.d/login
It works like a charm. Thanks for the quick response :) -----Original Message----- From: Tanner Lovelace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:59 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] how does one permit root telnet You probably need to change telnet's pam configuration. First, make sure you actually have a telnet server installed. :-) Then, take a look at the files in /etc/pam.d/. There should be a file in there called telnet. If you remove the line with "pam_securetty.so" on it, you won't have to mess with securetty for telnet (a bad idea, but you've already acknowledged that so I won't belabor the point too much). Otherwise, I'd suggest making the file similar to the pam "login" file. If you're running mandrake, you'll need to add one or both of the following statements to /etc/security/msec/level.local: allow_remote_root_login(1) allow_root_login(1) (And also make sure that file has this line at the top: from mseclib import * so as to not get errors, since I'm pretty sure that file just gets interpreted as python code.) Cheers, Tanner Lovelace On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:53:17 -0400, Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't hear this one every day. > I need to allow root telnet access to a Linux host. > I think I need to modify /etc/securetty to permit this but I'm not sure > exactly how, and my experiments so far are fruitless. > Anyone know? > > To prevent a flood of replies encouraging the use of SSH let me just say: in > this unique case telnet is the ONLY choice. > > Ryan > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
