From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 10:42:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cosrel1.hp.com (cosrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65EEB37BACA for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charles_dinkey@non.hp.com) Received: from amrelay2.boi.hp.com (amrelay2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.41]) by cosrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9DC6EE; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:42:50 -0600 (MDT) Received: from xboibrg2.boi.hp.com (xboibrg2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.172]) by amrelay2.boi.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id LAA29409; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:42:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: by xboibrg2.boi.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:42:47 -0600 Message-ID: From: "DINKEY,GENE (Non-HP-Loveland,ex1)" To: "'webmaster@wmptl.com'" , Daniel Ruthardt Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Telnet access from local network using "root" Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:42:34 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sudo is also a good way to do this. It will let you restrict what commands a user can run as root and keeps a log of what commands are run. This can be installed from ports. Gene Dinkey (return address broken, please reply to gene_dinkey@hp.com) >-----Original Message----- >From: Nathan Vidican [mailto:webmaster@wmptl.com] >Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 11:39 AM >To: Daniel Ruthardt >Cc: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Telnet access from local network using "root" > > >> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message