From owner-freebsd-net Sun Apr 30 12:27:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A8137BDB0 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA33643; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:27:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:27:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Alexander Langer Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I login as root using telnet? In-Reply-To: <20000430194946.A92146@cichlids.cichlids.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If nobody has answered yet, you put the word secure behind a few of the lines in /etc/ttys under Pseudo terminals: ttyp0 none network ttyp1 none network becomes ttyp0 none network secure ttyp1 none network secure then kill -1 1 to activate that. As for a free windows ssh client I suggest TeraTerm with the ttssh plugin which is found easily via a websearch. On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: >Thus spake Paul Robinson (paul@akitanet.co.uk): > >> trivial task to sniff passwords, so if you login as root over telnet, > >there are cases where you can trust the members on your LAN, e.g. if >it's your family. > >> You want to investigate the use of 'su', so create a user who is in >> group wheel, and then let them login and su to root. > >That sucks. the only reason why I telnet to my router-box is ifconfig >isp0 up/down, which I need to do as root. > >Either, I log in as root via telnet (I'm using ssh, btw, but Windows >has no good/free ssh client), or I su (sucks) or something like sudo. > >I'll probably soon do something like sudo. > >Alex > >-- >I need a new ~/.sig. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message