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- From: lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu (R. Lee Hawkins)
- Subject: Re: non secure root login
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.142348.20804@olaf.wellesley.edu>
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- References: <3497@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <Bz8KoH.M0B@world.std.com> <1992Dec15.114334.27925@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:23:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.114334.27925@news.uni-stuttgart.de> ralf@wilma.physik.uni-stuttgart.de (Ralf Hirning) writes:
- >In article <Bz8KoH.M0B@world.std.com>, mbg@world.std.com (Megan B
- >Gentry) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Why not log in using your normal account and then su to root?
- >|>
- >|> Megan
- >|>
- >
- >This works only in pure BSD security mode, not in ENHANCED.
-
- Err... Yes, it does. The trick is to flag the lines in /etc/ttys
- as su (as opposed to secure, which you probably don't want to do).
- To be fair, I can't find anywhere in DEC's Security Guide for
- Administrators or the ttys man page where it explicitly says that
- this will work in ENHANCED mode, but we are doing it, and it seems
- to work like a charm.
-
- Cheers.
- --Lee
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