Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 03:07:58 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Tian Siyuan <tsy@iist.unu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004230301180.55888-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10004231645280.1550-100000@aun.iist.unu.edu>
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Tian Siyuan wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hi, > > How can I remote login to FreeBSD as root? > > Thanks & regards, > > TSY > I recommend SSH. Free SSH clients are available for most variants of UNIX/Linux, as well as Windows. Install sshd from the FreeBSD ports to allow SSH logins, then enable root access by adding PermitRootLogin yes ...to /usr/local/etc/sshd_config SSH provides secure public/private key encryption over insecure networks. If you are on a closed network, or if you take a brazen attitude towards data security, root logins can be accomplished with regular telnet. Given a regular login user, add that user to the "wheel" group in /etc/group. So, at the top of /etc/group should be: wheel:*:0:root Simply add your name to that comma separated list. If your login ID was 'tian', that line should read: wheel:*:0:root,tian You can then log in via telnet as tian, and use su(1) to switch to the super user, provided you can enter root's password. su -l simulates a full login. I still recommend SSH, however. -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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