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From: dfazio@nachos.SSESCO.com (Dennis Fazio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: security, telnet
Message-ID: <352@nachos.SSESCO.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 05:53:10 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.195924.6231@eye.com>
Organization: SSESCO, Minneapolis, MN
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In article <1991Jan28.195924.6231@eye.com> paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth) writes:
>
> ........
>
>What I seem to have todo is to login to the 10k as a "normal" user, then su to
>root.  I've checked all the "standard" berkely/arpa config files (hosts,
>hosts.equiv, .rhosts, etc.) and they are ok -- identical to what I'm using
>successfully on the hp's.  Any ideas?  This is kind of a pain...
>
I believe that this is deliberately made so by Domain/OS. I seem to remember
calling Apollo support on this a while ago (late '89 or early 90) and the
engineer stated that for tighter security reasons, direct login as root over
the network is disallowed. You must have an account on the machine to log in
to first, and then have permission to su to root. This is on a 10.2 system.
I do not know if this situation has changed with 10.3.
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