From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 11:26:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0483EAB for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11249; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:26:47 -0800 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:26:47 -0800 (PST) From: To: George Cox Cc: Pat Waters , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root Telnet? In-Reply-To: <20000208150402.A1822@extremis.demon.co.uk> 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 You could use rlogin or ssh. Both allow root logins with or without prompting for a password. Ssh is best done with keys as opposed to allowing password logins. Rlogin is not exactly secure but will let you login as root if you aren't concerned about security at all. Keith ================================= I hearby change the name of RedHat to RedSplat. Keith W. At the helm ================================= On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, George Cox wrote: > On 08/02 08:52, Pat Waters wrote: > > > How does one go about allowing root to telnet into a FreeBSD server? > > You don't. Install OpenSSH, log in as a regular user and su to root. > > > gjvc > > -- > [gjvc] Powered by SMP FreeBSD > "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar." -- D.E. Knuth http://www.freebsd.org > > > 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