From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 1 13:27:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25412 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25367 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA16128; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:27:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: chart cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!!! In-Reply-To: <000801bd8b59$69018760$b84a37a6@clh2.ismd.ups.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 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