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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:12:50 -0500
From:      "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu>
To:        johnl@afes.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: telnet sessions for root
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990318161250.007de5a0@devrycols.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36F0C0E3.52ABC998@yolo.net>

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At 01:01 AM 3/18/99 -0800, 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?
>thanks in advance.
>John

It doesn't need to be corrected because it's not a problem.  

The solution is to log in as a normal user and use the 'su' command to gain
root privs.



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