AIX remote root logins

[Ben Lindstrom]

Commited,  Thanks.

As for the question about a new release.  No.  But I did commit it to the
V4_5_0 branch along with the --head.

- Ben

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Darren Tucker wrote:

> Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> > Send a patch.. I'll add it to the AIX queue.
>
> OK... this patch only calls loginrestricted on AIX if:
>
> a) the user logging in isn't root (so root logins can be disabled via
> telnet but permitted or denied via PermitRootLogin).
>
> b) sshd *is* running as root since loginrestricted will fail if sshd
> isn't (or isn't a member of group "security").
>
> See: http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383 for details.
>
> --
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