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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ethernet watcheri (was: tty watcher)
Message-ID: <1402@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 08:43:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: osiris.1402
Posted: Mon Sep 28 08:43:28 1987
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References: <4263@ozdaltx.UUCP> <15136@hi.UUCP> <1903@ttrdc.UUCP> <16434@hi.UUCP>
Organization: My Etch-A-Sketch runs X-Windows
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Summary: prohibitively incovenient
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In article <16434@hi.UUCP>, cyrus@hi.UUCP (Tait Cyrus) writes:
  
> Hmm?  Well, only allowing root su on hardwired terminals is great if you
> have hardwired terminals.  Here at UNM though, in the EECE department,
> the ONLY hardwired terminals are the consoles.  Everything else is via
> ethernet terminal servers.  It would be prohibitively inconvenient for us
> to have to go to the console to do anything as root.

	Actually, the hardwired terminal idea was to keep people from logging
in as "root" on anything but the console. Remember the "su" command ? THAT
doesn't need to be run on the console, though some versions read
/etc/securettys to determine if the tty is "ok". 

	I'm sorry to hear that system security is prohibitively inconvenient.
That is something you get to work out among yourselves.

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic