Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:12:50 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu> To: johnl@afes.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet sessions for root Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990318161250.007de5a0@devrycols.edu> In-Reply-To: <36F0C0E3.52ABC998@yolo.net>
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At 01:01 AM 3/18/99 -0800, John Laugenour wrote: >Having successfully installed FreeBSD I find I can >login through a telnet session as any user but >root, uid0. Attempts to login as root are refused >from host ..... >Can this be corrected and how? >thanks in advance. >John It doesn't need to be corrected because it's not a problem. The solution is to log in as a normal user and use the 'su' command to gain root privs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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