From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 25 5:37:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from www.kpi.com.au (www.kpi.com.au [203.39.132.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892E037BD82 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 05:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnsa@kpi.com.au) Received: from kpi.com.au (localhost.kpi.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by www.kpi.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03185; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:40:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from johnsa@kpi.com.au) Message-ID: <397D8ADA.413199B0@kpi.com.au> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:40:58 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: KPI Logistics X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean-Claude STAQUET Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: allow access of root user References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org However, this is Not The Recommended Way. Allowing root logins from the network exposes the system to a degree (the severity of which depends upon several factors). You'd be better off logging in as a user and su'ing to root (see 'man su' for details). Justin Stanford wrote: > > Look in /etc/ttys - A console marked "secure" will allow root logins. > [snip] > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jean-Claude STAQUET wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > How do you allow remote login on a freebsd system ? > > I'm able to login as root on the freebsd console itself but not from > > another machine. > > Regards ---------------------\=-_ _-=/ Andrew Johns BSc. \ \==/ / Principal Consultant \ / KPI Logistics Pty Ltd \ / mailto:johnsa@kpi.com.au \ +/ http://www.kpi.com.au \/ Which way is up and where do I fall? My favourite boot labels: F1 Real OS -> http://www.FreeBSD.org F2 Pretend OS -> http://www.microsoft.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message