Re: rsh under SuSE

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Scott Taylor said:
>
> Juan Carlos Inostroza said:
>> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 09:44 -0800, Scott Taylor wrote:
>>
>> In some distros, adding "rsh"
>> to /etc/securetty solves some of the problems.
>
> That will only help bypass the root rsh security, regular users shouldn't
> need that hack.

I should clarify: adding rsh to /etc/securetty will allow root, from a
remote site, to login.  This will not fix a poor configuration, only break
the don't-allow-root-through-rsh security.

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