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From: plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Microport Status
Message-ID: <98919@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 20:43:04 GMT
References: <96473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1700020@spdyne>
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Reply-To: plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher)
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+---- In article <1700020@spdyne> Chert Pellett writes:
|     I'd like to pick up the text prep tools from interactive, but I don't care
| for the rest of the system.  [A wonderful example is the way that 'su' is
| broke: if you su [to any user or root], from any tty other than the console,
| it will log you off!
+----

In the directory /etc/default there are several text files which you might
want to look at.  One of them is called login, another good one is called su.
Edit these and Delete the "CONSOLE=/dev/console" line in each file.  This
will allow root logins anywhere (/etc/default/login) and allow anyone to su
from anywhere (/etc/default/su)  (as long as they know the correct passwords!)

You must be root to edit these files.

Don't blame ISC for this, it is a Good Thing to have!  Can you spell
S E C U R I T Y ?  Yes, I knew you could. :-)

  -John Plocher