Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:27:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: chart <chart@mci2000.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601132520.15962M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000801bd8b59$69018760$b84a37a6@clh2.ismd.ups.com>
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On Fri, 29 May 1998, chart wrote: > I install freebsd 2.2.6 and I was trying to find out how to allow remote > login access for root. It's not in any man page. on sun you just edit > the login file but I dont have a clue on freebsd. Well, you're not supposed to do it, have them login normally and use `su' to get root perms. Just add the user to the `wheel' group to make it work. If you need to do it, edit /etc/ttys and change the `unsecure' to `secure' in the ttyp* network terminal device section. But you don't want to do this, it exposes your root account to password cracking from remote. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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