Question about ROOT LOGIN

From: Allen D. Tate (allendtate_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/21/05

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    I am sitting here beside my FreeBSD machine and suddenly see this:

    login: Nov 21 11:54:27 freebsd login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0

    and I don't know why it popped up. Isn't ttyv0 the console? You don't
    think someone has hacked into my system do you?

                    
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