From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 16:14:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15233 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14796 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:13:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA29218 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 01:13:11 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA04198; 12 Mar 98 00:15:48 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 11 Mar 98 23:07:12 +0100 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> Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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