From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 17:59:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp234-120.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.234.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E31237C27D for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by weeble.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA09246; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:58:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Message-ID: <009901bf92d8$fc121d20$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> From: "C J Michaels" To: "Srikanth Kumar" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <38D69CC7.4FD9A386@newbridge.com> Subject: Re: Can't remote login as root Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:58:42 -0500 Organization: WCC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That is working as designed. Direct logins as root are a huge security risk. I (as would most others) suggest you keep doing things the way you are. If you want more info search the mailing list archives. http://www.freebsd.org/search/ But, I'm not one to withhold information, if you truly wish to shoot yourself in the foot take a look at "man 5 ttys" and also the /etc/ttys file. Ciao, -Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Srikanth Kumar" To: Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 4:48 PM Subject: Can't remote login as root > 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. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message