Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!nddsun1!digital!digital.sps.mot.com!chen From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: security, telnet Message-ID: <500cdc4c.3593b@digital.sps.mot.com> Date: 26 Feb 91 19:45:46 GMT References: <1991Jan28.195924.6231@eye.com> <352@nachos.SSESCO.com> Sender: news@digital.sps.mot.com Organization: Motorola, LICD, SPS, Mesa, AZ Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: logic >>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. This is not true. All you need is to configure /etc/ttys to allow root login via psudo-ttys (if you really want to): pty0 none dumb on secure pty1 none dumb on secure . . . ptyf none dumb on secure Perhaps this should be added to Jim Ree's FQA file? -- Jinfu Chen (602)898-5338 Motorola, Inc. SPS Mesa, AZ ...uunet!motsps!digital!chen chen@digital.sps.mot.com CMS: RXFR30 at MESAVM ---------- Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com