From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 23:47:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA14194 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cody.usls.edu (www2.usls.edu [202.47.133.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA14182 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (francis@localhost) by cody.usls.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA01026; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:45:24 +0800 (PHT) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:45:24 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal To: "Randy B. Lymn" cc: jyplee@plaza.snu.ac.kr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem on Telnet Login.. In-Reply-To: <3403C466.794BDF32@aht.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Randy B. Lymn wrote: > > I'v manage the homepage of ksam(korean society agricultural machinery) > > > > When I want to edit the homepage, I can't login as root through telnet.. you can 'chown' all the pages you edit to your account and to the group that's allowed to edit the pages (if you have root access). that way, you don't have to 'su' to root or gain root access to the system. you don't really need root access to edit an HTML file, do you? > You should login as user, then su to root instead. --- FRANCIS VIDAL, System Administrator, USLSnet, University of St. La Salle La Salle Avenue, Bacolod City, 6100 Philippines [tel] (+6334) 435-2324 [url] http://www.usls.edu | mailto:francis@cody.usls.edu | FreeBSD Acct.