From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 23:27:56 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 2E9A937B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:27:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D74643ECF for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gAS7Rpsh081838; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:27:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id gAS7Rn1V081835; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:27:50 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:27:49 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: "Alvaro Rosales R." , Subject: Re: How to enable telnet with root? In-Reply-To: <20021128013151.GA31196@gothmog.gr> Message-ID: <20021128082544.B78309-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-11-27 19:00, "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. > > What 'root variables' are you referring to? > > Oh, and by the way, logging in as root over TELNET is not a good idea. > You shouldn't do it, unless you really know that you are safe. Isn't su - what you really need to get a root login shell with all startup files executed? Regards Konrad Heuer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message