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From: Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: rlogin for root oddness
Date: 22 Oct 1996 17:28:22 GMT
Organization: Department of Materials, University of Oxford
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Hi
Has anyone found that root cannot rlogin to a FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE system
but can to a FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP system.

I have checked and re-checked the ~root/.rhosts files for syntax,
permissions, location, etc.

Normal user rlogin's are fine, root on the older OS always gets asked
for a password.

root login refused on this terminal

I've set SKEY keys and still get refused. Where is this terminal being
defined to be secure (I assume it is just a network ttyp??) - /etc/ttys
doesn't list it.

OK, I can rlogin/telnet/Skey as another user and then su via S/KEY but
it is bugging me that I cannot find the file where this behaviour is 
being set - man pages don't mention this and login.access is all commented
out. 

Basically is there a change in the default behaviour for root logins??

Thanks
Neil

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