Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 18:34:20 -0400 From: "Martin Gignac" <martyg@sympatico.ca> To: <degraz@sbohm.yi.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Root-Like telnet account Message-ID: <007401c036f8$10325fe0$86e1e440@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <MDAEMON10001200010151918.AA1823076@sbohm.yi.org>
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About your delays before login prompt appearance: are your workstation and FreeBSD system on the same LAN segment, or are they separated by some sort of packet filter? (or do you have ipfw running on the FreeBSD system)? -Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: <degraz@sbohm.yi.org> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 19:18 Subject: Root-Like telnet account > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD on an older system I have, just to try it out, and would like to be able to telnet into it, and configure things remotely. Is is possible to make it so that I can login from root, or that another account has many of the same pr > velages as root, such as modifying configuration files? > > Also, when I login to through telnet, it connects, and sits for about 1-2 minutes before I get a login dialog. After this, data transfers very quickly. I get the same problem when logging into FTP, the client connects, but then times out. FreeBSD giv > s me some message about "icmp-response bandwidth limit 201/200 ppi." Does this have anything to do with the problem, and what can I do about it? > > Thanks, > > Travis Troyer > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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