From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 02:13:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69F816A4CE; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from KIL-SM-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (KIL-SM-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca [129.173.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFAA43D2D; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net) Received: from jargonccna.cjb.net (MCoe04661.ResNet.Dal.Ca [129.173.193.115]) i2QADURj007738; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:13:39 -0400 Message-ID: <406402C8.1050304@jargonccna.cjb.net> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:15:36 -0400 From: "Matt Coe, CCNA" Organization: Prophecy Newmedia User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040321 X-Accept-Language: en-ca, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hamed Abangar References: <20040326084326.26262.qmail@web11509.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040326084326.26262.qmail@web11509.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Administration Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:13:40 -0000 Hamed Abangar wrote: >Dear members > >I'm new to this list and also I'm new to FreeBSD environment .I'm network administrator in an isp.Recently i have changed our Internet servers from Linux to freebsd ( cache servers , dns servers , firewall , mail servers) . Every things works well , but i have a problem.I can't control my servers remotely.I have activated SSH and telnet but i can't login to my server with root account from my home or every other where. Each time i want to check my servers , i must go to my server's room and this is not good for a network administrator , i didn't have this problem with Linux. > Out of the box, FreeBSD disallows remote root logins. Instead, you can make a separate user part of the "wheel" group and su into root from there. I wouldn't necessarily advise doing all of your activity as the wheel'd user, though I haven't been playing with my FreeBSD machines on a sufficiently frequent basis to be able to say, one way or the other, if that would definitely cause problems. -- Matt Coe, CCNA Member-At-Large, Dalhousie University CS Society Fall 2003 'Ford! There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.' -- DNA, 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy', Arthur Philip Dent Sick of long-distance bills? Get Skype! www.skype.com