[1954] in SIPB_Linux_Development
suggestion for root logins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Foo)
Tue Dec 9 00:51:29 1997
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:48:34 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
One thing I've noticed in my usage of Linux-Athena over the years has been
that logging in as root always seemed to contact the hesiod/kerberos
server. I understand this is because default behavior is to check there
first and then look for local entries in /etc/passwd. But in root's case,
could that be made an exception so it always looks in /etc/passwd instead?
It's somewhat annoying sometimes because you log in as root when you'd like
to do sysadmin-type things (say network is slow, AFS went down, etc. etc.),
and you find yourself waiting for the login program to time out looking for
a Hesiod entry for root. This timeout sometimes takes a very long time.
Would this be hard to implement? It seems that it would be a modification
to /bin/login, I guess. I can imagine why you'd want to leave it at the
current behavior (_if_ the root password really is the default Athena
workstation root password), but a way to turn it off would be kind of handy.
-Edwin
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