From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 8:41:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEE637B54A for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 08:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28223; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:41:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:41:17 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Benedict H Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: superuser In-Reply-To: <200004012338050570.000705DB@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> 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 On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Benedict H wrote: > Anyway, is it secure for me to send root password via telnet when I add user?. > No. Make them use ssh and disable telnetd. > How if I want to add user via telnet but still want to avoid sending root password? > Read my previous message. Use sudo. :) -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message