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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3BSD login - logging in as root
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Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 19:37:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 12 19:37:00 1987
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> Getty probably reads /etc/ttys, prompts you with "Login: ", gets your
> login name, notices that its root, and *never* calls login.

Nope.  The 4.3BSD "getty" never looks at the "secure" flag.  "login" does this
check, based on the *user ID* of the account, not its name.