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[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:51:16AM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:58:38PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I often have ssh sessions to various machines on different consoles: I 
> > would log in locally an tty1, then again on tty2 and immediately ssh to 
> > another machine. Is is possible to configure things so that a 
> > particular console provides a login prompt for a remote machine from 
> > the outset?

Why not use Kerberos or something similar to do SSO, so that once you're
signed in, you can ssh freely?

> I know my old mandrake systems used to have tail -f /var/log/messages running
> in tty12 . 

A line such as the following in syslog.conf will do this:

*.*	/dev/tty12

I set all my machines up to not run a getty on tty1, and dump all logs
there instead.

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