Telnet root login

[Ian FREISLICH]

Barney Cordoba wrote:
> > Barney, you have to make the network pseudo ttys secure,
> > like:
> > 
> > ttyp0   none    network    secure
> > 
> > Ruben
> 
> Yes, the "its not a good idea" is dependent on whatever other
> security you have in place. Having to log in twice to a test
> machine on a secure internal network is an unnecessary annoyance.
> The concept that every FreeBSD box in existence is publically accessible
> is one of those ASSumptions that people should leave at the door.
> 
> Ruben, the method you cite no longer works in -current as they've 
> changed things once again (which happens way too often when your CEOs 
> are a bunch of bearded academics :)
> 
> I'm not sure if its the pty (the login terminal shows as pty/0 and 
> no longer ttyp0), or if its some PAM thing. Its rather annoying.
> Such things as 
> 
> pty/0 none network secure
> pty0 none network secure
> 
> equally don't work. And I see no mention in any document as to how it
> would be achieved with the current

Then use ssh and set "PermitRootLogin yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Ian

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Ian Freislich