From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 14: 9:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2947837B9B9 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpoland@execpc.com) Received: from judah (najiba-1-183.mdm.fox.execpc.com [169.207.127.57]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.1) id QAA15215; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:09:11 -0600 From: "Doug Poland" To: "Srikanth Kumar" Cc: Subject: RE: Can't remote login as root Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:09:11 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <38D69CC7.4FD9A386@newbridge.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD BSD001 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Mar 8 08:15:32 > EST 2000 root@BSD001:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERN_T1_QUAD i386 > > I am unable to login to the Free BSD machine from a remote terminal, as > root. > I have been logging in as another user, and doing an su, to get root > access. > Can you help me out from this situation? > I don't have the file /var/run/nologin present. > /etc/login.access, is the default from the installation, as are the > other files that login looks > at. > Thank you very much for your kind attention to this matter. > Regards, > Sri Kumar. > I believe this is a security feature of the OS. I've heard you can use SSH with a root login. -- Doug Poland dpoland@execpc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message