From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 02:13:13 2003 Return-Path: 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 C063037B401 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 02:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mdmail.mdata.dk (mdmail.mdata.dk [193.163.255.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F97D43FAF for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 02:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fsk@maerskdata.dk) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.11 July 24, 2002 Message-ID: From: "Fedder Skovgaard" Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 11:13:13 +0200 X-MIMETrack: S/MIME Sign by Notes Client on Fedder Skovgaard/Transport/MDG(Release 5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 02-05-2003 11:13:04,5.0.11 |July 24, 2002) at 02-05-2003 11:13:05, Serialize complete at 02-05-2003 11:13:05,not found,2003) at 02-05-2003 11:13:11, Serialize complete at 02-05-2003 11:13:11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Being root via ssl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 09:13:14 -0000 Hi List, I've got a 5.0-release box running remotely, and access it through ssl. I (obviously) created a default user account for day to day work, but discovered that I wasn't able to "su" when logged in via ssl. The only way I (As a newbie) could be able to change to root was to allow direct root login via ssl, which was documented as being something one quite seldomly would want to do. What is the preferred way of doing this, and is it _really_ dangerous to allow root login via ssl ? Thanks in advance, /Fedder