From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 11:23:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-247.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BE037B61A for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBHJOVG05284; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:24:31 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:24:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Rakesh Prajapati Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant remotely log in as ROOT Message-ID: <20011218082429.A5189@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rprajapa@sdf.lonestar.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:00:52PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:00:52PM +0000, Rakesh Prajapati wrote: > Hi , > > > I am unable to login as ROOT remotely from my work to my Home pc which is > FreeBSD Release 4.2 > > > IS this a security feature or I must do some settings to change this > behaviour. Security wise, it's better to log in and then 'su' to root. You need to make sure you're in the 'wheel' group before you can do this. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message