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Re: root login from telnet

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Subject: Re: root login from telnet
From: Nikhil Datta <nikhild@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:05:36 +0530
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> 
> basically i want to know how to allow root login from remote system ,and i dont want to use "su"

telnet is insecure. use ssh if you *must* login as root (i prefer to disable
root logins directly even on ssh, so that I can audit who became root, when,
and did what...

anyway, if you must, then man securetty

--nikk




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