Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:09:11 -0500 (EST) From: P Lynch <lynch@rush.net> To: simple <simple@gte.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: All Wierd and Pissed Off... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625181346.15359K-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <35919DB2.50AE@gte.net>
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first, FreeBSD does not allow logins at root from remote locations. FOr obvious security reasons. Second if you need to access the root account remotely, consider adding an account for yourself, adding yourself to the "wheel" group in /etc/groups and then using 'su -' to make yourself the root user. RedHat (and linux in general) does not particularly care about security out of the box. 3)cat /etc/passwd gives you a list of accounts 4) it is possible to limit with permissions and/or chroot where a person can log into and see by ftp 5) I use qpopper, source can be found on qualcomm's ftp site or I think theres some kind of 'popper' port in /usr/ports -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking ___________________________________________________________________________ On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, simple wrote: > Okay, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD (Unix) in general. I need to have root > access to my server from a telnet session because I am not always in > front of the computer, but, well, I think I've found a new love... I > think everyone on this list will understand this love. > > When I try to login to my server as root, it tells me that the login is > incorrect. I've also tried to login as a normal user and then rlogin as > root (this works for Red Hat 5.1). I've double and triple checked the > password I'm typing in is correct. > > Now, secondly, like I said I'm new to this stuff. > > Is there a way to list all of the user accounts that have been created. > > With FTP access built into FreeBSD, is it possible to limit the person > to only the FTP directory and sub-directories beneath that? > > And lastly, I installed one of the POP3 e-mail servers in the ports > section c-something, I don't know. What is the generally used e-mail > package used for POP3 stuff? I've tried to send e-mail to it using the > ip-number (because I don't have a domain registered) and it didn't > work. Is there something I have to do on the FreeBSD end of it, or do I > merely need a domain name? and if I need a domain name, will the > whatever.home.ml.org (ml.org) domains work? > > -Happy Man > -Douglas L. Setzer, II > Computer Creations > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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