From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 19: 1:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lvdi.net (Mta.lvdi.net [216.24.138.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A929714D60 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: from lvdi.net ([216.24.141.103]) by lvdi.net ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:58:29 2000 PDT Message-ID: <379E666F.FAEAC2B3@lvdi.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:09:51 -0700 From: notme Organization: me++ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "V. Keller" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root telnet access References: <3.0.32.19990727184756.006f067c@pop.eugn.uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why don't you try su instead? (superuser) Login as a regular user, then do the following su and it will ask you for the root password then you get root access. (in some cases, you need to do su -K)... Frankie "V. Keller" wrote: > I'm a total newbie to freebsd....but, I need to telnet in to my server as > root. Right now its a fresh install and it won't allow root to telnet in. I > know it's a security leak, but I need it for a few days.What file do I > alter, and what is the syntax? > Thanx, > V. Keller > > 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