From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 03:56:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03399 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dove.peace.com.my (peace.com.my [202.184.153.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03242 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:55:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: from lovebox (love.com.my [202.184.153.17]) by dove.peace.com.my (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17324; Wed, 13 May 1998 18:36:33 +0800 (SGT) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:36:33 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980513185846.00939a10@peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@peace.com.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) To: Evren Yurtesen , Giap Vu From: chas Subject: Re: Root user can't login Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >it does not accept you to telnet to a machine and use root account >because of some security problems (probably sniffers) This is something I used to wonder about before we moved to ssh. If I telnet in as some user and then su to root, and if there's a sniffer, isn't he going to get both passwords anyway ? chas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message