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[ale] rsh and rlogin
- Subject: [ale] rsh and rlogin
- From: vernard at cc.gatech.edu (Vernard Martin)
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:54:09 -0500 (EST)
> I forgot to add...I CAN rlogin and rsh as any user other than root. But
> there is a process I wanted to run as root, but it fails with an rsh and
> rlogin asks for a password.
On RedHat machines, they have configured the system so that root can _NEVER_
login without entering a password. Its a security feature.
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Georgia Tech, College of Computing