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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:19:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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At the risk of being flamed for a distribution type discussion...

Security nuts are probably rolling on the floor laughing at you for
these two. I can think of some situations where these would be usefull
though.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> 3) edit /etc/ftpusers to allow root ftp
>
> 4) edit /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/rlogin to comment out securetty
> PAM module (so we can telnet as root on _any_ tty)
>

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