From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 18:17:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20232 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 18:17:14 -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 SAA20208 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 18:16:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id DAA07719 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 03:12:11 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA04265; 15 Mar 98 02:16:16 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 14 Mar 98 21:43:53 +0100 Subject: telnet and login as root Message-ID: <6e3_9803150216@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: 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 14 Mar 98 15:53:21 Ken Ninh wrote regarding telnet and login as root KN> Hello - I am unable telnet and login as root. Is this a KN> restriction of freeBSD? No, that's a standard restriction on unices, because of security. If you really want to bypass, you must be root, and then edit /etc/ttys, change /dev/console to secure. KN> Currently, I am able to login as myself but not able to KN> 'su root' with the correct root password: KN> KN> "not in the correct group to su root" KN> KN> I made a mistake when setting up my user account during freeBSD KN> installation. I cannot get to the system console 'til Monday. KN> KN> Is there any way to get around this? Please help, Thanks. Hopefully there are no way around it. As far as the machine can see, you are a nasty hacker who are trying to get access to the innermost holy without the proper right, and it'll try its outmost to keep you out until he-who-must-be-obeyed (root) comes to the console and tell it otherwise. 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