From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 10:40:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B923537BA40 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08119; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:47:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3937F13E.8053CB12@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 13:39:10 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Ruthardt Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet access from local network using "root" References: <00a501bfcbef$4dc76a40$03a0fea9@wwwmein> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Daniel Ruthardt wrote: > > How do I tell FreeBSD that I want to allow my local network to access > my FreeBSD server using the "root" username via Telnet? Please help, > this is very important 'cause my server has no graphic card nor an > monitor (-; > > Thanks, > Daniel Ruthardt add users which you wish to be able to 'su root' into the group 'wheel'. See /etc/group, edit it, and add the username of any regular user to that group, then login via telnet as that user, type 'su' and enter the root password. It is not traditionally secure to telnet as root directly. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message