[SunHELP] remote login by root

[ChrisBotha at CTNDDN]

All accounts require passwords. In order to allow root logins over the net,
you need to edit the /etc/default/login file and comment out or otherwise
change the CONSOLE= line. 

This file's CONSOLE entry can actually be used in a variety of ways: 

1) CONSOLE=/dev/console (default) - direct root logins only on console 
2) CONSOLE=/dev/ttya - direct root logins only on /dev/ttya 
3) CONSOLE= - direct root logins disallowed everywhere 
4) #CONSOLE (or delete the line) - root logins allowed everywhere 

/etc/hosts.equiv is still supported, but there is no default. 

The way to give a particular user no password with the following entry in
/etc/shadow: 


user::9092:9999:9999::::



-----Original Message-----
From: tom alter [mailto:alti_tom at yahoo.com]
Sent: 07 February 2001 12:18
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] remote login by root


hi admins

i added the line 

+ root 
 in /etc/hosts.equiv and commented out the line
starting with console in /etc/default/login file. but
still i can't rlogin. it asks for the password. hope
somebody can help me out. thanks in advance

regards
tom

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