From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 01:29:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA14668 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 01:29:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14644 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 01:28:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA04162; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:29:13 +0800 (WST) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:29:13 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Glenn Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you assign the ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET? In-Reply-To: <350658D8.45FF@andover.co.uk> 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 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