From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 13:39:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01do.de.uu.net (smtp01do.de.uu.net [192.76.144.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C728F37B79C for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de) Received: from informatik.uni-halle.de ([195.124.230.62]) by smtp01do.de.uu.net (5.5.5/5.5.5) with ESMTP id WAA15701; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:39:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <38ECF4F6.3C84B937@informatik.uni-halle.de> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:35:02 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matt M." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet into root References: <006c01bf9ff5$f64febe0$873c67ce@800support.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! "Matt M." schrieb: > > Just wondering how I can enable the option to telnet into root. And, I > forgot to add myself into the wheel group, and I need to access my box from > work and do some root stuff. Is there any other way to access the root > account? > If you can login 'bout the system console, you can do some ways, f.e.: + you can edit /etc/group and add to the wheel group your user (use man group for format details) + you can install ssh (or OpenSSH) and connect via ssh to your computer (would my preferred way), ssh clients for windows and os/2 are available, too. -- Jens Rehsack --- http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rehsack/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message