Telnet root login

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Barney Cordoba wrote:

>> morninglightmountain# grep secure /etc/ttys|grep pts
>> pts/0   none                    network secure
>
> What tty does it say you are on? You may have the older stuff.
>
> That setup does not work for me. It was the first thing I tried.
>
> I'm running 800070

On my easily on-hand 800060 box, the secure flag on pts/0.../10 appeared to 
work as expected: with 'secure', I was able to log in as root using telnet 
from localhost; with it removed, I wasn't.  I'll upgrade userspace 
tonight/overnight and see if it works with a more recent userspace.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge