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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Root to login remotly
Date: 23 Jul 1996 12:54:25 GMT
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st568@Bayou.UH.EDU (James Xu) wrote:

>    How do I set BSD to allow root login remotly?

vi /etc/ttys

But i wouldn't do this.  Login as a regular user, and use su(1) to
become root.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j