Date: 11 Mar 98 23:07:12 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you assign the ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET? Message-ID: <634_9803120015@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <350658D8.45FF@andover.co.uk> <19980311195826.12417@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 11 Mar 98 10:28:26 Greg Lehey wrote regarding Re: How do you assign the ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET? GL> You log in as yourself, and then use su to become root. All GL> else is such an enormous security hole that you don't even want GL> to think about it. Why, really? What's the difference between getting the rootpassword sniffed at login, and when su'ing? Other than the sniffer probably need to snif both your normal password, and the rootpassword, if he doesn't have one himself and are in group wheel. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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