pam_access: hostname vs. terminal

Vladimir A. Pavlov pv.root at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 16:59:55 UTC 2006


On Monday 11 September 2006 02:42, Pablo Graziano wrote:
> Can't you just specify which tty's root is allowed to login from
> in the /etc/securetty file?

I can but isn't using /etc/security/access.conf the right way? I
thought /etc/securetty was deprecated.

Besides,
> Isn't it a security hole that the module cannot tell the difference 
> between a terminal and a host name?

Cannot an attacker create a DNS record for non-existing tty2 hostname
and login from it?

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pv




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