From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 22:21:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13080 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 22:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from segr.ml.org (cs111809-a.cgno1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.10.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA13065 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 22:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from segr@segr.ml.org) Received: from localhost (segr@localhost) by segr.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA00376; Tue, 12 May 1998 23:21:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from segr@segr.ml.org) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 23:21:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephane Raimbault To: Giap Vu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root user can't login In-Reply-To: <19980513050400.13338.qmail@hotmail.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 As far as I know it is a security feature, you cannot login remotely with root. What you would have to do is login with an account you created that is 'invited' into the wheel group then you can su to root. Hope this helps ----------- Stephane R. segr@segr.ml.org On Tue, 12 May 1998, Giap Vu wrote: > Hi there, > I try to telnet my FreeBSD computer from a Windows 95 using the root > account and get the message "Login incorrect." I wonder if this is the > way FreeBSD works or I miss something here. The reason I want > to login with the root remotely is because I leave my FreeBSD box in > the garage; you can imagine it's annoying to run up and down the stairs > to do administrative tasks on the FreeBSD box. > Would any one give me some insights to this? > > Giap Vu > giqu@hotmail.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message