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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 00:21:54 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>
To:        oliver stegle <oliver.stegle@gmx.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Root-Logon via Telnet /Rlogin
Message-ID:  <19980908002154.A16509@rucus.ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <001301bdda9a$445bd650$0101a8c0@olli.olli.net>; from oliver stegle on Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:01:13PM %2B0200
References:  <001301bdda9a$445bd650$0101a8c0@olli.olli.net>

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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
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za

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