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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!mfraioli
- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: non secure root login
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.001652.1007@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <Bz7pxH.565@dscomsa.desy.de> <3497@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:16:52 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <3497@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> henny@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Henny Bekker) writes:
- >In <Bz7pxH.565@dscomsa.desy.de> sprute@dsf58a.desy.de (Lars Sprute) writes:
- >
- >Hello Lars,
- >
- >>I would like to login as root via telnet or LAT, but this, as the error message
- >>says, requires a secure terminal. I'd like to circumvent that, but how ?
- >>(My machine isn't that important, so I don't like the constraint of a secure
- >>terminal.)
- >>
- >With Ultrix it is possible to have some distriction between "normal", secure
- >and su-able terminals..
- >For example some time ago I managed some student administration systems at
- >the University of Utrecht. On these (C2-enabled Ultrix systems) I created a
- >special entry in the /etc/ttys file for one (1) LAT terminal which I enabled
- >to use su. (You can also enable root login on it). This port could only be
- >used as LAT port (with a terminal-server or a PC with LAT software. This LAT
- >port was connected by means of:
- > lcp -v <special-unknown-name>:/dev/tty?? \
- > -V "Special entry"
- >to a special LAT service.
- >From my PC or terminal-server I could login on the systsem anb becore root..
- >
- There's a much easier way- just edit the file /etc/ttys. In it you will
- see a bunch of lines starting with "ttyp0", then "ttyp1", and so on.
- Under the column labelled "status", add the word "secure". Then you
- will be able to telnet in as root.
-
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-