From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 18: 4:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1D137B401 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:04:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587E043EA9 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 18:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <200211290204350510082nbje>; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 02:04:35 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5A848463; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:15:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" , "Konrad Heuer" Cc: "Alvaro Rosales R." , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:04:36 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <20021128082544.B78309-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How to enable telnet with root? Message-Id: <20021129021505.1E5A848463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:27:49 +0100 (CET), Konrad Heuer wrote: > >On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> On 2002-11-27 19:00, "Alvaro Rosales R." wrote: >> > Hi friends. I would like to enable root access to telnet (I know >> > that it is not secure, but I need to make some tests and I don't >> > want to su to root because I loose root variables. >> >> What 'root variables' are you referring to? >> >> Oh, and by the way, logging in as root over TELNET is not a good idea. >> You shouldn't do it, unless you really know that you are safe. > >Isn't > > su - > >what you really need to get a root login shell with all startup files >executed? I use "su -l" any it is the same as logging in as I know --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message