Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:16:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@microsoft.sucks.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securetty? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809051413230.7033-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809052329220.26248-100000@www.aachen.linux.de>
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There is a way, but why would you want to do that? It is very VERY insecure. Anyone with a computer on your network can find out your root password this way by simply sniffing your traffic (yes, even if you telnet in as a user and then su(1) to root one can also sniff both user and root passwords). Please consider using SSH which can be found at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/security/login/ssh/ instead of telnet. After all, you don't all world to know your root password, right? :) -- Yan I don't have the password + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >Is there some way to permit root logins over telnet, like the securetty >file in Linux, in FreeBSD 3.0? > >LLaP >bero > > > >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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