From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 18 13:13:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nmail.devrycols.edu (nmail.devrycols.edu [199.218.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DC4314C9D for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:13:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jm7996@devrycols.edu) Received: from cis069 [131.187.253.210] by nmail.devrycols.edu (SMTPD32-4.07) id AC1E3D6E002C; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:11:58 EST Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990318161250.007de5a0@devrycols.edu> X-Sender: jm7996@devrycols.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:12:50 -0500 To: johnl@afes.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "James A. Mutter" Subject: Re: telnet sessions for root In-Reply-To: <36F0C0E3.52ABC998@yolo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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