Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:39:00 +0200 From: bk <koester@x-itec.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root-Like telnet account Message-ID: <14122691348.20001020183900@x-itec.de> In-Reply-To: <007401c036f8$10325fe0$86e1e440@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <MDAEMON10001200010151918.AA1823076@sbohm.yi.org> <007401c036f8$10325fe0$86e1e440@lmc.ericsson.se>
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Hello Travor, Monday, October 16, 2000, 12:34:20 AM, you wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just installed FreeBSD on an older system I have, just to try it out, MG> and would like to be able to telnet into it, and configure things remotely. MG> Is is possible to make it so that I can login from root, or that another MG> account has many of the same pr >> velages as root, such as modifying configuration files? look at /etc/ttys and add "secure" on the terminal you want to connect to. if you do not know the right termial, login with a normal account remotely and use the command "w" to see who is online. Example: localhost# w 8:46PM up 1:11, 2 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT root v0 - 7:36PM 1:08 -csh (csh) blabla p0 master 8:39PM - w i am looging in as root remotely from v0 on the console and from p0 remotely. so i have to add secure to the ttyp0 pseudo terminal. If you want to keep your bsd system secure, i suggest you not to allow root to login remotely. Create a user with adduser command and put this user into the group "wheel". login with this user and enter "su" to switch to root account. This is more secure, because an external attacker do not know what account is required to logon or to be root. >> >> Also, when I login to through telnet, it connects, and sits for about 1-2 MG> minutes before I get a login dialog. After this, data transfers very this is mostly a resolver "problem" (not a real one). Look in your /etc/hosts and add pseudo names of your client(s). for example, if you want to connect from 192.168.0.2 to your freebsd server 192.168.0.99 then you add on your freebsd server this line 192.168.0.2 master master is a pseudonym only for the freebsd resolver. all connects are tried to resolv to a hostname, if there is no nameserver available and if there is no hostname, it seems to block somewhere. This is a normal and will stop i think if you modify/create your /etc/hosts. -- Boris Köster To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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