From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 7:32:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 132394046 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:32:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27199 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2000 15:32:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (oogali@127.0.0.1) by missnglnk.wants.to-fuck.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 2000 15:32:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:32:27 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali 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 Telnetting into a machine over the clear is discourages, especially telnetting as root. Create a user for yourself, telnet in as that user then 'su' to root. If you absolutely need to login as root, I would recommend that you use 'ssh' to encrypt the communications between you and the remote server. Omachonu Ogali Intranova Networking Group 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? > > Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > patw > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message