From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 0:55:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from satan.freebsdsystems.com (24.69.168.6.on.wave.home.com [24.69.168.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6C237B8BB for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:55:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@satan.freebsdsystems.com) Received: (from lnb@localhost) by satan.freebsdsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA02255; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 03:58:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lnb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <006c01bf9ff5$f64febe0$873c67ce@800support.com> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 03:58:24 -0400 (EDT) Organization: FreeBSD Systems Inc. From: Lanny Baron To: "Matt M." Subject: RE: telnet into root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you are telnetting to a system, why don't you use ssh? I strongly recommend you dont attempt to allow root telnet. Root ssh..ok /usr/ports/security/ssh2 lnb On 06-Apr-00 Matt M. wrote: > 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? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Lanny Baron, Master FreeBSD Administrator ---------------------------------- Date: 07-Apr-00 Time: 03:58:24 "I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger." -- Gloria Steinem ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message