Re: [PLUG] Telnet problem

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

> > Other thing is that root, by default, is not allowed to directly, 
> > remotely login.
> >    
> Says who? Under what specific circumstances?
>
> Many distributions, operating systems, and daemons that perform
> logins (login(1), sshd(8), pam(8)) may default to this, but it's
> always configurable.
The default in RedHat, at least up through 7.3, is to /not/ allow root 
to login directly using telnet or even a serial console.  This 
constraint can be altered by editing the /etc/securetty file.



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