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From: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: logging on as root on other than /dev/console
Summary: look in /etc/default/login
Message-ID: <1990Jan6.062148.8587@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 6 Jan 90 06:21:48 GMT
References: <1940@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> <39@guug.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
Lines: 14

In article <39@guug.UUCP> ott@guug.UUCP (Joachim Ott) writes:
>i have done this once for microport unix: find out the address of the string
>'not on system console' in the data segment (use 'hd' and a calculator);
>find out where this address is pushl'ed (to printf) - use 'dis'; shortly
>after the printf-call is the exit-call - replace it with nop's (write your
>own program). After this you can login as root from anywhere.

Gack!  What's wrong with commenting out the line

CONSOLE=/dev/console

in /etc/default/login?
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz