From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 02:17:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE5E1065676 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:17:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B82D8FC1C for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:17:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA65346B09; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:17:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:17:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Barney Cordoba In-Reply-To: <983452.12250.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <983452.12250.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: mail25@bzerk.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet root login X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:17:34 -0000 On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Barney Cordoba wrote: >> morninglightmountain# grep secure /etc/ttys|grep pts >> pts/0 none network secure > > What tty does it say you are on? You may have the older stuff. > > That setup does not work for me. It was the first thing I tried. > > I'm running 800070 On my easily on-hand 800060 box, the secure flag on pts/0.../10 appeared to work as expected: with 'secure', I was able to log in as root using telnet from localhost; with it removed, I wasn't. I'll upgrade userspace tonight/overnight and see if it works with a more recent userspace. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge