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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I could not login via telnet as root.
> > Various websites said to add to securetty as devices
> > pts/0 to pts/9 - what are these?
>
> Your telnet login will tell you which device you are
> coming in on.  It is probably:  ttyp1

> > securetty comes with four lines starting in # and
> > continuing with ttyp0 through 3 which I uncommented.
>
> Those are the ones for telnet.
>
> > Various websites said to log in as user and then su root.
>
> su gives super user (root) access to ordinary users
> (if they know the root password).

I will get it from shadow.tgz and try it but why do that instead of just 
log in as root?  Is it really more secure somehow?  I am tired of running 
into things user cannot do, such as write files to disk.

> > Well, now I can telnet or do send/receive between two
> > computers hooked up with ethernet cable, both in linux,
> > but not over serial cable.
>
> /root/netsetup has a template for networking via serial cable.

Thanks.  I presume I need to figure out a DOS ppp program first.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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