From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 00:10:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02745 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newmail.netbistro.com (newmail.netbistro.com [204.239.167.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA02737 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:10:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lyonsm@netbistro.com) Received: (qmail 18711 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Aug 1998 07:09:58 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:09:58 -0700 (PDT) From: M Lyons To: "Jojo B. Mamucod" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root access on telnet In-Reply-To: <35DB1251.E847BC27@snap.portalinc.com> 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 Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Jojo B. Mamucod wrote: > I have a question how can I enable a telnet using root account ???? Assuming you are talking about allowing root to log in directly via telnet, you probably don't really want to do this. The usual way of accomplishing this is to have normal users who are trusted with access to the root account. These users log in as themselves and then use the "su" command to become root. To tell the system that a user should be allowed to su to root, add their username to the "wheel" group in /etc/group. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message