Re: [netatalk-admins] dumb questions


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] dumb questions
From: Albert Max Lai (amlai@columbia.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 29 1998 - 21:12:07 EST


On 29 Dec 1998, William P. McGonigle wrote:

> --- "david bernick" wrote:
> if i (foolishly, i know) want to login
> (via netatalk) to a *NIX box as root, how can i go about doing that?
> --- end of quote ---

I suppose that you'd just have to comment out lines 438-441 in
etc/afpd/auth.c. It should say:

    if ( uid == 0 ) { /* don't allow root login */
          syslog( LOG_ERR, "login: root login denied!" );
          return AFPERR_NOTAUTH;
    }

Without these lines, it looks like root will work.

> The password checking code specifically denies UID 0 (root) from logging in.
> You'd have to hack it.
>
> -Bill
>

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