From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 9:17:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C4415493 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from montana1@home.com) Received: from camelot ([24.6.55.158]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991111171705.BRIM22609.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@camelot>; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:17:05 -0800 Reply-To: From: "Mark Einreinhof" To: "Tim" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: RE: Please help! Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:15:35 -0600 Message-ID: <001401bf2c68$5dd7ade0$0201010a@cmr.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <009b01bf2c5c$a43c6ca0$70c8fbcd@roadrunner.nf.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Highly recommend against telneting in as root. BIG security hole. By default, root log in for telnet is disabled. Recommend using ssh (secure shell) on the server and a ssh capable client. This allows you to have an encrypted connection thus not passing a password in the clear. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tim Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 9:51 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Please help! I am working for a client, and he wants me to telnet into his server which has FreeBSD. Can anyone please tgell me how to get in the root? Thanks Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message