Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:17:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: mail25@bzerk.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet root login Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903260215380.92924@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <983452.12250.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <983452.12250.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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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
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