home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!poiro!frank
- From: frank@poiro.enet.dec.com (Frank O'Neill)
- Subject: Enabling/disabling root logins on a terminal?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.140612.25137@rdg.dec.com>
- Lines: 25
- Sender: frank@poiro (Frank O'Neill)
- Reply-To: foneill@clada.enet.dec.com
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:06:12 GMT
-
-
- Hi,
-
- Can anybody tell me how to mark tty lines as secure (i.e. allow
- root logins) on AIX. The on and secure bits may be set in the
- /etc/ttys file on ULTRIX and in the /etc/ttytab file on SunOS.
- Neither of these files seem to exist on AIX. The getttyent()
- routine gets a tty description file entry which has a format
- described in ttyent.h and includes the TTY_ON and TTY_SECURE
- bits. What file does getttyent() access to find this information?
-
- It seems that when I use SMIT to add a TTY, it creates the file
- /dev/tty*, and I can set the Enable LOGIN bit for that TTY using
- the Change/Show characteristics of a TTY. But how do you enable
- or disable the SECURE bit?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Frank
-
-
- --
- Frank O'Neill,
- Digital Equipment International,
- Galway, Ireland
-