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Re: redhat 6.0 secure ttys

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From: Cris bessette
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:00
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I just used Telnet to get into the RH6.0 LINUX machine on my network. I
logged in with my user account then SU'ed (super user) into the root
account. This works, ( I do not know of any way to telnet as "ROOT"
Cris Bessette

Ryan Carter <racarter_dtc@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> I've been suffering the same frustration and just got off the telephone
> with redhat support.  According to the engineer that I spoke with, root
> telnet access has been removed completely from redhat 6.0.  No
> workarounds whatsoever.
>
> In article <375b5bf3.0@nntp.ecn.net.au>,
>   "Andrew Hatfield" <andrew@hatfields.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi, i have only just upgraded our RedHat 5.2 server to 6.0
> >
> > the /etc/securetty file contained console ttys and ttyp0-5 so that we
> could
> > do a remote root login, but now it doesn't work
> >
> > the reason is that when you do a telnet login to redhat 6, it gives
> you the
> > tty /dev/pts/0 (like solaris)
> >
> > when i put pts/0 pts/1,etc into /etc/securetty it doesn't do anything
> (that
> > i can see anyway)
> >
> > what do i need to do so that i can do a remote root login???
> >
> > --
> >
> > Andrew Hatfield
> > Tech-Support Engineer
> >
> > Hatfield & Associates Pty. Ltd.
> > Phone : +61 7 3849 7155
> > Fax : +61 7 3849 6277
> > Email : info@hatfields.com.au
> > Web : http://www.hatfields.com.au/
> >
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From: "Cris bessette" <bessette@rabun.net>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 secure ttys
Date: 1999/06/17
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