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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
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Subject: Re: Root login using rlogin to a 386i
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Date: 26 May 89 01:19:25 GMT
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reilly@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (G B Reilly) writes:
>A colleague of mine insists upon being able to rlogin as root into his Sun
>386i.  Is there some clean way to support this.  Comments on how dumb this
>is are not welcome as the machine is on a closed network.

I think the problem is in /etc/ttytab.  Root login is only allowed on
those tty's that are labelled as 'secure'.  On our system that does not
include the network ports.  We only allow root login from the console,
serial lines that are entirely within our Division, or vi 'su' from
another account.

-David-

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