SUMMARY: root rlogin returns "NOT ON SYSTEM CONSOLE"

From: Thang Victor Dinh (tdinh@irvine-sensors.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 1997 - 11:26:14 CST


WOW !!! In less than 12 hours, I received 70 + replies to my posting. Too many name to list
out here so I just do a BIG GROUP thank you. Thank you all !!!

SOLUTION:

In Solaris 2.x, there is a security feature that allows root to only login at the console. Remote login is NOT
allow. To disable this security feature, simply comment out the line

CONSOLE=/dev/console

in the file /etc/default/login.

However, the many of the replies do warn of possible security problems if this feature is disabled. The
suggested method is to rlogin as user and su to root.

Victor

ORIGINAL :
Hello managers

When I do a root rlogin, I get "NOT ON SYSTEM CONSOLE" message. What does the message
mean ?

Thank you

Victor



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:11:43 CDT