Root login from selected macchines

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From: Graham Philip Crowe
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00

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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!

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From: gpc01@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (Graham Philip Crowe)
Subject: Root login from selected macchines
Date: 1997/10/24
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