From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 20:15:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03843 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:15:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03834 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:15:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA25482; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:14:59 +0800 (WST) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:14:59 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Brendan Kosowski cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: giving root telnet access In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > How do I give root telnet access ??? You mean being able to telnet in and login directly as root? Edit /etc/ttys Scroll down to the network ttys "ttyp"'s (at the end). For the first half a dozen of so entries, change each to: ttyp0 none network secure ...and so on... Save the changes, the execute: kill -HUP 1 (send a HUP to init). > P.S. - I understand the security risk. Personally and professionally, I would *never* allow root login on any terminal, other than the box's keyboard itself. And only then, if that was in a secure location. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | | Perth, Western Australia. | 12840184 ICQ | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message