From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 17:40:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cinternet.net (mail.cinternet.net [206.112.217.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B59814E70 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:40:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soren@mail.cinternet.net) Received: (from soren@localhost) by mail.cinternet.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id UAA05054; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:39:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990326203958.A5040@cinternet.net> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:39:58 -0500 From: Soren Harward To: Jim Pazarena , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnet access restrictions References: <9903261715.aa15232@dick.ccstores.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <9903261715.aa15232@dick.ccstores.com>; from Jim Pazarena on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 05:15:13PM -0800 X-URL: http://www.soren.cinternet.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 26 Mar 1999 at 17:15:13, Jim Pazarena muttered: > I am setting up my first FreeBSD box, and find that I can't telnet in > as root but I can as a regular user. > > I can't find where root is blocked from access. Please help. If you really want to enable root telnet (not recommended), then add 'secure' to the network terminals in /etc/ttys -- Soren Harward | Windows DOES come with a tool http://www.soren.cinternet.net/ | to restore a corrupt Registry. Internet Information Systems Admin | Cinternet, Inc. (513) 891-1228 | It's called FDISK. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message