From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 20:31:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE32714FF6 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00485; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:32:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908240332.XAA00485@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Root Login from Telnet? In-Reply-To: <000701beedb5$057d16e0$02c810b0@andy.twcny.rr.com> from A Minkstein at "Aug 23, 99 06:15:34 pm" To: andy0383@twcny.rr.com (A Minkstein) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:32:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A Minkstein wrote, > Is there anyway you can telnet to your UNIX box and Login as ROOT? Log in as a mortal user who is a member of the group wheel (gid 0), and then su to root. Better yet, use ssh. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message