From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 06:31:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA28310 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 06:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA28304 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 06:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (roman.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA23124; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:27:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35D2EB9B.2ED7460F@graphnet.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:35:23 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Graphnet, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ervins Tumulkans CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ervins Tumulkans wrote: > > Please help me: how can i make remote connection to freebsd as root? Hi, You need to have a user account on the machine to which you know the name and the password and which belongs to the 'wheel' group. When you telnet in, log in as that user. Then do: su And give it password for root. If you do whoami you will see that you are root. You can go back to regular user status by typing exit HTH, Roman -- _________________________________________ | Roman Katsnelson | | UNIX Network Engineer | _ | Graphnet, Inc. | _ / )|_________________________________________|( \ / / | "Consistency is the hobgoblin of | \ \ _( (_ | small minds. | _) )_ (((\ \>|_/-) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (-\_|