Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!eos!shelby!csli!dayglow From: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Remote NeXT Users, etc. Message-ID: <10435@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 89 05:41:47 GMT References: <8248@oregon.uoregon.edu> <5103@ubc-cs.UUCP> <2422@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <1166@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU> Sender: dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. Ly) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 16 In article <1166@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>, pa1034@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (John Marco) writes: > In article <2422@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> jst@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Joe Stong) writes: > I haven't been reading this group for very long (2 days), and I have absolutely > NO experience with the Next Box. However, Some people have mentioned that one > cannot become root remotely. Login will not normally allow one to logon as > the super user from anywhere but the system console. It is possible that ... (A solution to the problem) ... Sure you can. I don't believe you need to write a program to fix it even. This problem stumped me too, but I discovered that if you edit the /etc/ttys file by putting the word "secure" at the end of several of the "tty" lines, you can rlogin as "root". Eric Ly CSLI, Stanford University