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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Telnet Root access
In-Reply-To: <01bd01aa$f4f35de0$09d181c2@user2.shellnet.co.uk> from Steven Fletcher at "Dec 5, 97 06:24:00 pm"
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Steven Fletcher writes:
> I've just installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 via FTP, and I can telnet into the machine
> using any other user than root. The prompt simply says that the login fails,
> but any other users is OK. I've check capitalisation, but I'm not sure why
> this is happening.

Edit /etc/ttys and add "secure" to the pseudo-terminal lines?

This is not a freebsd-current question, btw.

-Archie

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