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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
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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