From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 15:25:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18687 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 15:25:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA18664 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 15:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 18725 invoked by uid 1003); 7 Sep 1998 22:21:54 -0000 Message-ID: <19980908002154.A16509@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:21:54 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: oliver stegle , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root-Logon via Telnet /Rlogin References: <001301bdda9a$445bd650$0101a8c0@olli.olli.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <001301bdda9a$445bd650$0101a8c0@olli.olli.net>; from oliver stegle on Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:01:13PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon 1998-09-07 (22:01), oliver stegle wrote: > How can I logon from remote as Root via Telnet /Rlogin? Why would you want to? Log in as a normal user, and use "su" to change to root. Be warned that bother telnet and rlogin send across plain-text password, and in fact the entire "conversation", so try ssh out (it's in the ports collection - /usr/ports/security/ssh) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message