From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 18 22:29:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01833 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from namodn.com (namodn.com [207.33.107.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01828 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@namodn.com) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost) by namodn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA29672; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:34:10 GMT (envelope-from robert@namodn.com) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:34:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert To: David Shanes cc: questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: Clearing "NOROOT" status. In-Reply-To: <008501be2b19$390a36a0$0143a8c0@family1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Found this using http://www.freebsd.org/search ---- The su way is the proper way to do this. But if you really want to login as root remotely you'll have to edit the file /etc/ttys and add "secure" to the ttyp? (pseudo ttys). This will enable you to login as root. Please, please, if you do something like this at least use ssh (secure shell) as your machine could be compromised very quickly if someone is sniffing your network. Here is a sample entry for /etc/ttys ttyp0 none network secure ttyp1 none network secure and so on... Another reason this is a bad idea is that if someone does a dictionary attack on your telnet login root cannot be compromised. ---- Hope it helps... -rob ( www.namodn.com ) ( robert@namodn.com ) On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, David Shanes wrote: > OK, so I thought that I remembered the password, but I got it wrong > (several times). How do I re-enable an IP address to login as root via > telnet? > I am logged in locally as root. Running 2.2.6 release. > > > Thanks, > David > ____________________________________________ > David Shanes > dshanes@mswin.net > > > > 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