From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 15:43:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02636 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.seidata.com (ns1.seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02629 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) From: mike@seidata.com Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by ns1.seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09422; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:43:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:43:34 -0500 (EST) To: Maxim Sobolev cc: Tim Preece , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet and NIS queries In-Reply-To: <36B1F5CF.C8D4D370@altavista.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Your "problem" with telnet session is very simple - by default FreeBSD > doesn't allow anybody to login as "root" through insecure connection (see > /etc/ttys). This can be changed by editing /etc/ttys to make Pseudo *doh* Yes, it's /etc/ttys *not* login.access as I said in my reply. I agree that this is really a bad idea/habbit with serious implications. -- Mike Hoskins System/Network Administrator SEI Data Network Services, Inc. http://www.seidata.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message