From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 14:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12688 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12683 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id OAA07986; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:16:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:16:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securetty? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is a way, but why would you want to do that? It is very VERY insecure. Anyone with a computer on your network can find out your root password this way by simply sniffing your traffic (yes, even if you telnet in as a user and then su(1) to root one can also sniff both user and root passwords). Please consider using SSH which can be found at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/ instead of telnet. After all, you don't all world to know your root password, right? :) -- Yan I don't have the password + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >Is there some way to permit root logins over telnet, like the securetty >file in Linux, in FreeBSD 3.0? > >LLaP >bero > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message