From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 16: 3: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2070E37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966CD43E88 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:03:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <20021128000306001007mh1le>; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:03:07 +0000 Message-ID: <3DE55D36.6030807@mac.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:03:02 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alvaro Rosales R." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to enable telnet with root? References: <3DE51634.2540.2567FE2@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3DE51634.2540.2567FE2@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alvaro Rosales R. wrote: > Hi friends. I would like to enable root access to telnet (I know > that it is > not secure, but I need to make some tests and I don't want to su > to root > because I loose root variables. > thanks a lot for your answers > I'm not going to help you shoot yourself in the foot or anywhere else ;-) Why can't sudo work for you here? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. -- Swami X To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message