From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 1:19:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1BE15084 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:19:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990318091946.KPAW682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:19:46 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: johnl@afes.com Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:18:49 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: telnet sessions for root Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <36F0C0E3.52ABC998@yolo.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990318091946.KPAW682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Mar 99, at 1:01, John Laugenour wrote: > Having successfully installed FreeBSD I find I can > login through a telnet session as any user but > root, uid0. Attempts to login as root are refused > from host ..... > Can this be corrected and how? Yes it can, but it is not advised for the security risk. Far better to telnet as a user who is a member of wheel, then use su to become root. see /etc/ttys which says contains this: # status Must be on or off. If on, init will run the getty program on # the specified port. If the word "secure" appears, this tty # allows root login. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message