Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[novo@xxxxxxxx (Alvaro A. Novo)]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Herman Knief wrote:
> If you use SSH, you can do this without overly compromising security (or
> modifying securetty.)

That's sound advise... I would even add that you should comment out telnet
services from /etc/inetd.conf (ie, use only ssh).

Alvaro Novo
SuSE 6.3
Kernel 2.2.13
KDE 1.1.2

>  - Herman
> 
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Chuck Carson wrote:
> 
> ->>
> ->>I want to enable root logins from anywhere. (I know, this is bad, but this
> ->>is a machine that I care little about, just want to use it to house stuff I
> ->>need when I am in the field)
> ->>
> ->>In the past, I forget now, but I used to add entries to /etc/securetty other
> ->>than tty[0-9]. I know I can simply remove this file to accomplish what I
> ->>want but what can I add to this file to allow just 1 remote root login at a
> ->>time?
> ->>
> ->>Thanks  Greatly,
> ->>-Chuck
> ->>
> ->>
> ->>Chuck Carson		Sr. Systems Engineer
> ->>858.720.5040		ccarson@xxxxxxxxxx
> ->>
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