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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:37:19 +1030 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.net>
Cc:        Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@require-re.42.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: no more pty's / lockout
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811201435200.30971-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <13908.55544.854706.2736@trooper.velocet.ca>

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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, David Gilbert wrote:

> 	ssh (and I believe rsh... but I don't use it) will allow a
> login without an available tty as follows:
> 
> ssh -l root <hostname> "bash -i"

or csh -i, etc.

The rsh version also won't leave traces in your utmp (at least, they don't on
other systems), never tried it with ssh but I'd expect something similar.

Kris


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