Subject: Re: why no telnet for root?
To: Jell-O <wookie@us.net>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/22/1996 04:10:56
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Jell-O wrote:
> BSDI will allow root to login. Althought it is not a great idea to
> allow root to login, I believe that it should at least be an option.
> How about we make it an option for our kernel configs? Let's set it
> to default to no root login; this will at least allow people to have
> this option.
Just edit /etc/ttys, and add "secure" to the end of the ttyp? and ttyq?
lines. For example:
ttyp0 none network secure
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