From owner-freebsd-small Sat Jun 29 14:49:36 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 70C0F37B400 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18ED43E06 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:49:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g5TLncT64465; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:49:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ken Ryan Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I use "root" as a telnet account? In-Reply-To: <200206281013.g5SADkE7089848@m-net.arbornet.org> Message-ID: <20020629144854.V62564-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us 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, Ken Ryan wrote: > How can I use "root" as a telnet account? > It is disabled by default. > Thank you. That's so you don't type your root password over the net in the clear. You REALLY don't want to enable this unless you REALLY REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT SYSTEM SECURTY. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message