From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 4:30:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ulixes.esc.ac.at (ulixes.esc.ac.at [193.170.216.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6505E37B402 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 04:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from ulixes.esc.ac.at (localhost.esc.ac.at [127.0.0.1]) by ulixes.esc.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1MCUpHr058205; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:30:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from flo@ulixes.esc.ac.at) Received: (from flo@localhost) by ulixes.esc.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g1MCUlQN058204; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:30:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from flo) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:30:47 +0100 From: Florian Nigsch To: Robin Becker , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login as root from specified domain Message-ID: <20020222133047.A58163@nigsch.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from robin@reportlab.com on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:06:01PM +0000 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 While loggin in as root is not normally a good idea, see login.access(5) fro some hints. make sure that PermitRootLogin is NOT no in sshd.conf for FTP: root must not be in the ftpusers file. why not use su(1) and ssh/sftp/scp? flo On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:06:01PM +0000, Robin Becker wrote: > Is it possible to set up a network term so that root can log in/do ftp > from a specified domain? I believe it's the terminal security that > inhibits logins from root other than on the console. > > The machine sits on the other side of the room from me and is connected > to the internet, but it has no console of its own normally and I would > like to be able to ftp/login as root occasionally but only from our > local network. > -- > Robin Becker > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---end quoted text--- -- --- Florian Nigsch http://flo.nigsch.com/ PGP key: http://flo.nigsch.com/fnigsch.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message