root login with telnetd

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through  
>> telnet and without telneting to some user and then su -
>> ?
>>
>> with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success.
>>
> once again - can someone answer my question instead of giving very  
> "intelligent" comments?

Not sure. If I'm reading ttys(5) correctly though this is the section  
of interest:

``secure'' (if ``on'' is also specified) allows users with a uid of 0 to
      login on this line.  The flag ``dialin'' indicates that a tty  
entry
      describes a dialin line, and ``network'' indicates that a tty  
entry pro-
      vides a network connection.  Either of these strings may also  
be speci-
      fied in the terminal type field.  The string ``window='' may be  
followed
      by a quoted command string which init(8) will execute before  
starting the
      command specified by the second field.

So I think that the following would be valid (but possibly dangerous  
if you use other login daemons like rshd, sshd for logging in  
remotely); that may be fixable with a firewall though and specific  
rules to each daemon though.

In ttys (near bottom), instead of:

ttyp0 none network

try:

ttyp0 none network on secure

and repeat for the rest of the ttys you wish to enable the option for.

Why not use root login with telnet or standard getty through serial  
though :\?
-Garrett