On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, dan dockery wrote:

> I went back into the Installer to change my ttys file to allow root login
> on ttyp0 and realized that I'm also going to have to run dhclient at boot

There are only two things to say to you, depending on if the speaker is
nice or not:

1) (nice) NO! NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

2) (not nice) Ahh, is that so? Let me get my network sniffer.


You REALLY should NOT:

a) enable root logins over the net. Create yourself a user account for
logging in, then use su - to get to root if needed.

b) log in as root over an insecure connection. You really need to use
encryption. Like ssh.

If your machine is up for long-enough stretches of time that you log in
from elsewhere, then you should take security seriously. Especially since
it's easy to do. Just run ssh, and a lot of problems are avoidable w/
minimal administrative overhead. Also, ssh is in the pkg system, and also
works fine w/ NetBSD last I looked.

Take care,

Bill