Re: Telnet

[Remco van de Meent <rvdmeent@xs4all.nl>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote:

 : One thing I have noticed is that I cannot login as root across a telnet
 : connection. 

Edit /etc/securetty, which defines the tty's you can login from as root.

 : Anyone tell me why?  And if its possible to change that to were I can login
 : through telnet?

This is something for /etc/hosts.deny, from the tcpwrappers (man
hosts_access).

 -Remco


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