From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 12:23:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28549 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ophelia.uoregon.edu (sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu [128.223.194.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28495 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by ophelia.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA08658; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:22:50 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: Ken Ninh cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet and login as root In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Ken Ninh wrote: > Hello - I am unable telnet and login as root. Is this a restriction > of freeBSD? Yes, this is a restriction, though it isn't unique to FreeBSD. The network ttys aren't considered secure (for good reason). > "not in the correct group to su root" You need to add yourself to the group "wheel". Obviously you need to login as root to do that :-) And you'd need to login as root to make the changes necessary to login as root on a network tty. So, it seems you are out of luck until you can get to the console. Sean -- "Believe me, the truth is we're not honest. Not the people that we dream." --10,000 Maniacs, "Eden" Sean Harding, sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message