From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 6:54:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (lsmls02.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A866937B41A for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home (we-66-74-164-119.we.mediaone.net [66.74.164.119]) by lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (8.11.4/8.11.3) with SMTP id f8LDsNZ07403; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001e01c142a4$5b099930$0100a8c0@home> From: "PetBuilder" To: "Stephen Hurd" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Telnet & Root access Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:50:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 2 questions if I might, How do I add a user to the "root" group after the install? how do I add SSH after the install? I am a very newbie with FreeBSD and I have not gotten that far in the book yet. Thanks, Craig Rose ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Hurd" To: "PetBuilder" ; Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:04 AM Subject: RE: Telnet & Root access > > 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.v 1. > 1.asc > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message