From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 01:23:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA14094 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 01:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.mail.pipex.net (relay.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA14085 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 01:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glenn@andover.co.uk) Received: (qmail 7589 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1998 09:23:46 -0000 Received: from mailhost.sparsholt.ac.uk (HELO sparsholt.ac.uk) (193.128.236.130) by iprelay.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 11 Mar 1998 09:23:46 -0000 Received: from SCH_EDUC3/SpoolDir by sparsholt.ac.uk (Mercury 1.21); 11 Mar 98 09:27:23 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by SCH_EDUC3 (Mercury 1.30); 11 Mar 98 09:26:54 GMT Received: from sentinel.sparsholt.ac.uk by sparsholt.ac.uk (Mercury 1.30); 11 Mar 98 09:26:49 GMT Message-ID: <350658D8.45FF@andover.co.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:26:48 +0000 From: Glenn Johnson Reply-To: glenn@andover.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How do you assign the ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi again! I have now sorted the problem with the connection - it seems that our router was not to blame - actually it was my fault! The cable was faulty, and would not connect!! Should have checked the obvious instead of wasting your precious time, sorry.... However, my next question is quite valid - how do I login as ROOT from a telnet session? I would assume that it has been disabled for security reasons, but I need remote access. I have already found out that to allow ROOT to access via FTP, you need to hash it out in the FTPUSERS file in /ETC. No problem. But there dosen't seem to be the same type of file for TELNET users? Hope you can help! Many thanks, Glenn Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message