From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 7: 9:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007B743C3 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:09:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA16788; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:10:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 08:55:26 -0500 (EST) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Pat Waters Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root Telnet? In-Reply-To: <000001bf7244$24e84e50$0301a8c0@socrates.eskridge1.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 Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Pat Waters wrote: > How does one go about allowing root to telnet into a FreeBSD server? > Is it a similar concept to that of Linux where you would just rename the > /etc/securetty file? This is dangerous. But you can do so by editing lines in file /etc/ttys: ttyp0 none network secure ttyp1 none network secure (add secure after existing network) and then send HUP signal to the init process to inform the changes. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message