Its /etc/securetty actually. Anything that uses login will reference this file. There is however an option for sshd_conf that will allow root to login: PermitRootLogin Yes -miah On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:19:48PM +0100, juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:
Chris Clarke wrote:
I just received my security update message, and the logs on the gateway state: "sshd[xxxx]: Faking authloop for illegal user root"
Chris.
This makes me think... There is a rc.config parameter to disable/enable remote root logins. I do not know wether that affects ssh as well and wether it is "updated" to "no" with the securety fix. Any other user to try to login but root??? (probably a superflucious question for a machine like this)
Juergen
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