From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 19: 0:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fingers.shocking.com (shocking.com [216.111.111.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C234D14D97 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doemill@shocking.com) Received: from shocking.com (doemill@shocking.com [216.111.111.11]) by fingers.shocking.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA10783; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:58:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug To: "V. Keller" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root telnet access In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990727184756.006f067c@pop.eugn.uswest.net> 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 oh god#T&*!&@#*&@! no, dont do that. Make another user, and put him in the group 'wheel' in /etc/group like wheel:*:0:root,telnetd And use ssh, Not telnet, if possible. If you seriusly are totally transfixed on letting root login remotley then edit /etc/ttys and add "secure" to the ttys allowed to have root login via them... On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, V. Keller wrote: > I'm a total newbie to freebsd....but, I need to telnet in to my server as > root. Right now its a fresh install and it won't allow root to telnet in. I > know it's a security leak, but I need it for a few days.What file do I > alter, and what is the syntax? > Thanx, > V. Keller > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > | Doug | unix9.org admin | shocking.com/~doemill/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message