[H-GEN] telnetting as root

Michael Anthon mca at tams.com.au
Mon Mar 27 23:08:29 EST 2000


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Take a peek in /etc/securetty.  The relevant man page is the one for 'login'

Cheers
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Grant [mailto:luke.g at uq.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2000 12:03 PM
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> Subject: [H-GEN] telnetting as root
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> Hi guys,
> 
> I have just taken over a linux boxen which allows telnetting in as the
> user "root". I dont like this at all and wish to stop it but 
> having never
> set this up b4 have no idea where to look?
> 
> Where would be a good place to start?
> 
> Lukw Grant
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