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Article #54416Re: Root login from selected macchines
From: Graham Philip Crowe
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:00
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No, in the 'login' man page it tells how to setup '/etc/usertty' not securetty sPaul Wilkins (paulw@tmpw.com.au) wrote: : Graham Philip Crowe wrote: : > : > I remember seeing someone here asking for help because they were unable to log : > in from other machines as root. : > : > I have found something that may be of help to that person. : > : > In the 'login' man page I found reference to a file /etc/usertty. : > This file can contain a list of users and groups and where they can login from. : > : > This will allow a sysadmin to specify certain machines or subnets that can login : > directly as root. : > : > Read the man page for details on this file! : err... : that's /etc/securetty surely!? : Paul --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a997,93385459537d59b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a997,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,93385459537d59b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: gpc01@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (Graham Philip Crowe) Subject: Re: Root login from selected macchines Date: 1997/10/29 Message-ID: <6367as$npr$1@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 285671312 References: <62p8pr$1ud$3@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au> <34543559.751BDBC7@tmpw.com.au> Followup-To: aus.computers.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions