On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:08:37PM +0100, Vincent Couvreur wrote: > In my securetty i 've already have : > And it does not work > ----- Original Message ----- Hi Vince, Looks like my original post got truncated at the first "." alone as the first char on a line. -- (trivia question everyone - why did this happen? );-)
I'll modifiy the post so all of it gets posted this time. Since you can login as other users but not root I'm pretty sure that the securetty file is your problem. (but using telnet to login as root is still a poor ides I use ssh even on my home LAN and telnet is disabled.) Here is the full post: yep, definitely a no-no. Anyone running tcpdump or ethereal or any one of dozens of linux or Windows packet sniffers can snatch your root password off the LAN. If your not worried about that then add the names of the tty lines you wish to be able to login as root from to the file /etc/securetty The file can look like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/securetty vc/1 vc/2 vc/<N> ... tty1 tty2 tty<N> .... pts/1 pts/2 pts/<N> ..... where vc - virtual consoles ( these should be there!) and tty = serial ports, including modem lines and pts = pseudo ports - mainly Ethernet sockets, for coming in over the network. I recommend you skip telnet and use ssh. It allows you to do everything telnet does but it connects over an encrypted link so your password can't get sniffed and no one can login to your system as root remotely even if they have the password via telnet (assumes securetty doesn't have pts's in it) This way you are "more" protected when someone gets past your firewall. (but even "more" is a relative thing.) Ans to trivia question - to many mailers "." alone on a line indicates the end of the email message. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://users.rcn.com/jkinz/policy.html. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://users.rcn.com/jkinz/policy.html. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list