Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:49:46 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akitanet.co.uk> Cc: "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I login as root using telnet? Message-ID: <20000430194946.A92146@cichlids.cichlids.com> In-Reply-To: <390C70D3.87088484@akitanet.co.uk>; from paul@akitanet.co.uk on Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:43:47PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.GHP.4.10.10004301200560.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com> <390C70D3.87088484@akitanet.co.uk>
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Thus spake Paul Robinson (paul@akitanet.co.uk): > trivial task to sniff passwords, so if you login as root over telnet, there are cases where you can trust the members on your LAN, e.g. if it's your family. > You want to investigate the use of 'su', so create a user who is in > group wheel, and then let them login and su to root. That sucks. the only reason why I telnet to my router-box is ifconfig isp0 up/down, which I need to do as root. Either, I log in as root via telnet (I'm using ssh, btw, but Windows has no good/free ssh client), or I su (sucks) or something like sudo. I'll probably soon do something like sudo. Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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