From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 05:12:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA24186 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from altus.speednet.com.au (root@altus.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA24180 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from warpy@suburbia.com.au) Received: from insanity (warpy@cyber-52.speednet.com.au [203.61.112.101] (may be forged)) by altus.speednet.com.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA10090; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:12:26 +1100 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:26:36 +1100 (EST) From: Warpy X-Sender: warpy@insanity To: Paul Gilletti cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root Telnet into FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul Gilletti wrote: > We have installed FreeBSD from your Walnet Creek CD-ROM. We are trying to > login to the FreeBSD box (as root,with correct password) using telnet from a > Sun and SCO box on our LAN. The login prompt shows up on the SUN or SCO side > and we attempt to login, but get a login failure. On the FreeBSD console it > says that the login was rejected, even though we set the following in the > file /etc/login.access on the FreeBSD box; > > +:root:ALL > > How do we overcome this problem? > > Paul Have you considered telnetting to the system as a regular user then su'ing to root? Regardless of which course you choose however you still have a security problem whereby the root password is transmitted in plaintext across the network. I suggest you look at Secure Shell (http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh) as more secure alternative to telnet. Warpy --- http://suburbia.com.au/~warpy | Email: warpy@suburbia.com.au "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein