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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I want to enable (allow) root login via telnet/rlogin
Date: 11 Jan 1996 21:23:36 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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jhupp@gensys.com (Jeff Hupp) wrote:
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] Heinz Wittenbecher <heinz@byted.com> wrote:
]
] :I'm experimenting/installing 2.1 and prefer to do it logged in as root
] :as I find it too cumbersome loggin in as su re path settings,
] :permissions, etc.
]
] In /etc/ttys add 'secure' to the end of the ttyp(x) entries like it is for
] the ttyv(x) entries.
or use "su -" instead of "su" to get the root environment as well.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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