From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 8:17:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8725137C268 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 4278 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2000 15:17:17 -0000 Received: from client98-229.hispeed.ch (HELO 10.2.2.100) (62.2.98.229) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 28 Jul 2000 15:17:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:18:41 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45 Beta/6) Personal Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <102688603589.20000728171841@buz.ch> To: Sam Carleton Cc: Sean Heber , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re[2]: Can't become root.. In-reply-To: <3981A13B.DBA487B2@miltonstreet.com> References: <001701bff8a3$2461f360$05172dc6@seanheber> <3981A13B.DBA487B2@miltonstreet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Sam, Friday, July 28, 2000, 5:05:31 PM, you wrote: > By any chance do you have sshd running on the machine? You can ssh in as root. In standard configuration you can't login as root not even through sshd. IIRC one would have to set the pty's as safe in order to allow remote root logins... Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message