From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 28 15:50:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E905937B49C for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neon.clari.net.au (neon.clari.net.au [203.8.14.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E9D4410F for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@clari.net.au) Received: from localhost (danny@localhost) by neon.clari.net.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5SMnZ514595; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 08:49:37 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from danny@clari.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: neon.clari.net.au: danny owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 08:49:34 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Roberto Nunnari Cc: Ken Ryan , Subject: Re: How can I use "root" as a telnet account? In-Reply-To: <3D1C3792.7070506@die.supsi.ch> Message-ID: <20020629084808.X14587-100000@neon.clari.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > add the host you're connecting from to /etc/hosts.equiv > > Ken Ryan wrote: > > > Hello, Everyone: > > How can I use "root" as a telnet account? > > It is disabled by default. > > Thank you. I think you'll find that hosts.equiv does not give root access. Only root's own .rhosts will do that. But the answer you are looking for is to add the word 'secure' to the end of the entry in /etc/ttys for ttyp0 etc. Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message