Subj : Iloveyou
To   : David Drummond
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Mon May 22 2000 02:46 pm

 JB>> last I heard all that was needed to make a computer available for
 JB>> anyone to telnet in as root was a working telntd, and a file in
 JB>> the root's home directory called ".rhosts" containing "+,+,+"
 JB>> sneaking something like that into a script would be real easy.

 DD> By default, the modern Linux distributions do not allow inbound
 DD> telnet as root. Would this .rhosts override that

Possibly not (I'm not equipped to thest that here) but you could probably
append a line to whatever file applies and fix that with another line of
script.

 DD> Regards, David

 -=> Bye <=-

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