This is OP again, any suggestions for my below problem..

On Jun 6, 6:58 pm, Phoe6 wrote:
> Hello All,
> I would like to enable root login access to telnet on Fedora Core 6.
> I am able to telnet to using a normal user, but not as a root user.
> 1) making changes to /etc/securetty with adding pts/0, pts/1 etc did
> not help.
> 2) Removing the /etc/securetty file did not help.
> 3) Commenting out the auth entries in /etc/pam.d/login did not help.
> 4) If I disable krb5-telnet and install telnet-server rpm, the telnet
> as root works on local system but a remote putty access is not
> working.
>
> My requirement is: I would like to login as root when telnet to my
> remote Fedora Core6.
>
> "Yes, I know. telnet is insecure, but this experiment is completely
> inhouse and I _want_ to use telnet only"
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Senthil

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:44:43 -0700, Phoe6 rearranged some electrons to
form:

> This is OP again, any suggestions for my below problem..

Maybe it's because what you want to do is a very bad idea, and no one
wants to help you implement a bad idea.

>
> On Jun 6, 6:58 pm, Phoe6 wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I would like to enable root login access to telnet on Fedora Core 6. I
>> am able to telnet to using a normal user, but not as a root user. 1)
>> making changes to /etc/securetty with adding pts/0, pts/1 etc did not
>> help.
>> 2) Removing the /etc/securetty file did not help. 3) Commenting out the
>> auth entries in /etc/pam.d/login did not help. 4) If I disable
>> krb5-telnet and install telnet-server rpm, t
> This is OP again, any suggestions for my below problem..
>
> On Jun 6, 6:58 pm, Phoe6 wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I would like to enable root login access to telnet on Fedorhe telnet as
>> root works on local system but a remote putty access is not working.
>>
>> My requirement is: I would like to login as root when telnet to my
>> remote Fedora Core6.
>>
>> "Yes, I know. telnet is insecure, but this experiment is completely
>> inhouse and I _want_ to use telnet only"
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Senthil

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