Re: Problem with ssh connection

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, walt wrote:

> >     ...for that matter, you can give
> >     root a blank password (so no password is required at all), but only allow
> >     passworded logins on the console.  This is what I do...
> 
> Do you mean that *anyone* who walks up to your console
> can log in as root?  Am I misunderstanding you?

I don't have his answer, but login can stop root logins.

See ttys(5) and the getttyent(3) manual pages.

If the entry has "insecure" then the ty_status gains TTY_SECURE. And this 
is checked in the rootterm() function in src/usr.bin/login/login.c by 
using getttynam(3).