Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:26:36 +1100 (EST) From: Warpy <warpy@suburbia.com.au> To: Paul Gilletti <support@sensorsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root Telnet into FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980107002242.5204B-100000@insanity> In-Reply-To: <E0xpotD-0006ep-00@mail.istar.ca>
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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 Have you considered telnetting to the system as a regular user then su'ing to root? Regardless of which course you choose however you still have a security problem whereby the root password is transmitted in plaintext across the network. I suggest you look at Secure Shell (http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh) as more secure alternative to telnet. Warpy --- http://suburbia.com.au/~warpy | Email: warpy@suburbia.com.au "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein
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