Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:29:13 +0800 (WST)
From:      Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To:        Glenn Johnson <glenn@andover.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do you assign the ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311172847.4158A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <350658D8.45FF@andover.co.uk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote:

> However, my next question is quite valid - how do I login as ROOT from a
> telnet session?  I would assume that it has been disabled for security
> reasons, but I need remote access.  I have already found out that to
> allow ROOT to access via FTP, you need to hash it out in the FTPUSERS
> file in /ETC.  No problem.  But there dosen't seem to be the same type
> of file for TELNET users?

telnet in as a regular user, then su to root. It is much safer.

Regards,

d.

+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Dean Hollister,           | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au |  
| Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au        |
+-------------------------------------------------------+


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980311172847.4158A-100000>