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Re: Root Remote Login



On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Alex Shnitman wrote:

> > Most of the Unixes allow to allow remote login
> > as root in /etc/login.defs .
> > That's not so in RedHat 6.X, SuSE 6.X .
> > So how can I allow the remote login as root to those
> > systems anyway?
> > PAM?
> 
> Yep. /etc/pam.d/login contains a line like "auth requisite
> pam_securetty.so"; remove it.

more to the point, you probably want to simply "rm /etc/secturetty"
instead.

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