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From: mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I want to enable (allow) root login via telnet/rlogin
Date: 12 Jan 1996 19:17:19 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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In article <4d3v4o$e4l@park.uvsc.edu>,
	Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>] 	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.
>

My 5 cents, although, not _excatly_ what was asked for ;)

On my machine, mi and root share the same home directory,
where all the files belong to mi (to avoid permission problems
with files created by root). Many of alias, environment, etc.
problems went away after I set it up like this. 

	-mi