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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:38:07 -0900
From:      Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl>
Subject:   Re: root login with telnetd
Message-ID:  <200703101338.22384.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070310224946.K10353@chylonia.3miasto.net>
References:  <20070310224946.K10353@chylonia.3miasto.net>

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On Saturday 10 March 2007 12:52, Wojciech Puchar said:
> can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through
> telnet and without telneting to some user and then su -
> ?
>
> with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success.

That is a REALLY BAD idea. Why don't you just publish your address and=20
set the root password to nothing. It's only going to take a cracker a=20
couple of minutes or less to own your server once they find you (and=20
they will).

Beech
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