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Date:      Wed, 7 Jan 1998 01:45:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
To:        Paul Gilletti <support@sensorsoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: root Telnet into FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980107014418.21030A-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E0xpotD-0006ep-00@mail.istar.ca>

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By default (for obvious security reasons) root is not allowed to log in
from telnet.  To enable this, simply add the word "secure" next to your
ttyp's in /etc/ttys.  Then, kill -1 1.  Then root can telnet in.

Joe Clarke

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul Gilletti wrote:

> We have installed FreeBSD from your Walnet Creek CD-ROM. We are trying to
> login to the FreeBSD box (as root,with correct password) using telnet from a
> Sun and SCO box on our LAN. The login prompt shows up on the SUN or SCO side
> and we attempt to login, but get a login failure. On the FreeBSD console it
> says that the login was rejected, even though we set the following in the
> file /etc/login.access on the FreeBSD box;
> 
> +:root:ALL
> 
> How do we overcome this problem?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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