From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 20 23:53:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server1.lordlegacy.org (lordlegacy.org [209.61.182.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B33837B41F for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sharon ([216.13.207.127]) by server1.lordlegacy.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA22702; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:05:45 -0500 From: "Stephen Hurd" To: "PetBuilder" , Subject: RE: Telnet & Root access Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:04:24 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <000c01c14266$5cc11660$0100a8c0@home> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm trying to telnet into a server with 4.3 and I can log in thru telnet using a regular user > name and pass but it will not accept the root log in and pass. You actually don't want to do this... honest. If you NEED root access through telnet (and I would REALY reccomend using ssh - if you're using Windows, use PuTTY) you can log in as a user in the wheel group and su to root with the right password. Also, make sure you've applied the security update described at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:49.telnetd.v1. 1.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message