Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:25:46 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Todd Reed <ex279@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shutdown -k & root login from telnet Message-ID: <20010918132546.B4648@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <F242VakNHo2qddYsIL50001232f@hotmail.com>; from ex279@hotmail.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:04:22PM -0500 References: <F242VakNHo2qddYsIL50001232f@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:04:22PM -0500, Todd Reed wrote: > I've got two issues I'm trying to resolve. > > 1. When I do a "shutdown -k now", it doesn't kick off any users. I created > a regular user with no groups, etc. Logged in had that user, then from > another telnet session, I logged in as myself and done a shutdown -k. > Nothing happened except that a message was displayed. When I logged out, I > couldn't log back in, that was good; but I thought users in the wheel groups > would be able to log in? > The shutdown(8) manpage is clear on that: for all but super-user. > 2. Why doesn't FreeBSD allow users to login as root from a telnet session > (I know it due to security)? I had to go to the server to reboot the > system. I can always su, but I couldn't because of the shutdown -k. Is > there a way to allow it to? > Sure, mark all pseudo-ttys as ``secure'' in /etc/ttys. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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