Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:08:35 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: telnet, SRA & preventing remote login as root? Message-ID: <3A1EF4F3.1DBB456C@partitur.se>
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Hi!
I just realized a strange thing:
Since 4.0, telnetd has SRA support. The SRA login dialog seems
to bypass login(1) and I can't find a proper way prevent root
from beeing able to login remotely.
Here's what happens:
$ telnet hostname
Trying 1.2.3.4...
Connected to hostname.domain
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeBSD/i386 (hostname.domain) (ttyp2)
login: root
Password:
Login incorrect
login: Connection closed by foreign host.
$
fine, this is what I want... but:
$ telnet -l root hostname
Trying 1.2.3.4...
Connected to hostname.domain
Escape character is '^]'.
Trying SRA secure login:
User (root): root
Password:
[ SRA accepts you ]
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All
rights reserved.
... (I'm logged in as root)
WTF!
This is a standard 4.2-RELEASE system. Before 4.0, it wasn't
possible to remotely log in as root (well, not any proper
documented way...:) and I am a bit surprised that I suddenly
can.
I tried stopping this with login.access, but it seems it is not
used by the SRA login dialog.
I tried telnetd -X SRA (in inetd.conf), and this works (but
crashes my 4.0-stable server just as PR 19606 says) but is
still a workaround, since it removes the SRA altogether.
Also, I tried telnetd -a off, and this will create double login
dialogs, the second beeing login(1):
$ telnet -l root hostname
Trying 1.2.3.4...
Connected to hostname.domain
Escape character is '^]'.
Trying SRA secure login:
User (root): root
Password:
[ SRA accepts you ]
Password:
Login incorrect
login: root
Password:
Login incorrect
login: Connection closed by foreign host.
$
Is this intentional?
/Palle
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