[ale] rsh and rlogin

Vernard Martin vernard at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Nov 26 23:54:09 EST 1998


> 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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