Re: Vulnerability in HP sysdiag??? and securetty - clarification

[njhm () ns njh com (Nicolas J. Hammond)]

Beebe, Todd wrote ...
> Funny thing..
>
> [...]
> annoying password.
>
> On a side note, if there are any SysAdmins out there using the
> /etc/securetty file as a means to disallow direct root login, don't. It
> also
> has a "bug" that HP support never gave me a answer for.  If you
> use xterm to login to your server it doesn't use the /etc/securetty file
> so the tty is not secure, you can get a direct login as root without
> any changes to the system.  I thought somewhere within C2 specifications
> it talked about disallowing direct root login....

This is not in the C2 requirements of the "Orange Book"
(the book that defines security class requirements)

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