From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 20:29:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08355 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gutenberg.uoregon.edu (gutenberg.uoregon.edu [128.223.56.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08348 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by gutenberg.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA19271; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 20:32:53 -0700 From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: Andriss cc: Edwin Woudt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sanne@portalinc.com Subject: Re: root access on telnet 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 On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Andriss wrote: > Telnet is very insecure though, why don't you try ssh instead? > Besides, ssh lets you login as root and encrypts your session. I agree...Everyone should be using ssh. However, logging in directly as root is still a bad idea, if for no other reason than that it promotes bad habits. Sean -- Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu|"They burn their bridges as they http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | go." Consulting: http://www.efn.org/~seanh | --Natalie Merchant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message