From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 09:35:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA14450 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lotus2.lotus.com (lotus2.lotus.com [192.233.136.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA14432 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Andrew_Werner/SSW/Lotus@lotus.com) From: Andrew_Werner/SSW/Lotus@lotus.com Received: from internet2.lotus.com (internet2 [9.95.4.236]) by lotus2.lotus.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17146 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:35:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta2.lotus.com (MTA2.lotus.com [9.95.5.6]) by internet2.lotus.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA19516 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:31:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mta2.lotus.com(Lotus SMTP MTA Internal build v4.6.2 (651.2 6-10-1998)) id 8525664A.005B3C7B ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:36:32 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: LOTUS@MTA To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <8525664A.005B3ABC.00@mta2.lotus.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:26:16 -0400 Subject: remote root console Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm really sorry about this, I didn't clarify enough I suppose. I want to be able to log in to root directly instead of as another super user. This will be crucial as not everyone who will be using this box will have an account on it. And I only want them to use root as their login instead of being another user. -A.J. Werner > I used to be on this list and back in March and April I saw a post about > how it is possible to gain root from a login elsewhere than the console > itself. How is this done? I can't remember how to do this. Any help you > have would be appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message