From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 06:49:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA22246 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 06:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (wired.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA22198 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 06:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wired.ctech.ac.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA04590; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:47:59 +0200 (SAT) Message-ID: <33F0698F.31DFF4F5@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:47:59 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: higgins@lexmark.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login as root References: <199708121338.AA03909@interlock2.lexmark.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk higgins@lexmark.com wrote: > > Hello, > > I have FreeBSB 2.2.2 and want to configure it to let me login as root from > another machine using TCP/IP and telnet. [snip] This is *REALLY* not advisable. I suggest you install ssh on the BSD box and use ssh/scp from your client side to have encrypted comms to your ssh host. This way you can telnet in as root *WITHOUT* having to modify any files that really *does not* need any modification ;) -Jacques ------------------------------------------------------ The box said "Requires Windows 3.11 or better" ... so I got FreeBSD jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za ------------------------------------------------------