From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 15:14:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from psasolar.colltech.com (psasolar.colltech.com [208.229.236.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BE037B62A for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@colltech.com) Received: from localhost by psasolar.colltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/not) with ESMTP id RAA18907; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:14:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:14:37 -0500 (CDT) From: "James A. Mutter" X-Sender: jmutter@psasolar.private.psa.pencom.com To: Ken Bolingbroke Cc: Nathan Vidican , Daniel Ruthardt , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet access from local network using "root" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. > > And it's not any more secure that way, either. Install openssh or ssh > from /usr/ports/security and use that. And the direct answer to your question... vi /etc/ttys (I think, I don't have a box handy) and mark the pty's as secure. That will allow root logins from telnet. Now, that probably isn't the best idea from a security standpoint - using ssh and allowing root logins through ssh is probably a better idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message