Re: Help needed ...

[manas garg <manasg@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Sunit Mathur wrote:

> You cannot logon as root from a remote system. To get root privileges from
> another machine logon as another user and then use the su command to get the
> super user privileges. (LIZARDS please correct me if I am wrong).

One of the most frequently asked questions on this list. There is a
file /etc/securetty which has to be edited to enable this. You can add the
tty(s) that you want to enable for root login. There are some security
issues involved in this. This has been discussed quite a few times. Please
refer to the Archive. 

Manas


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