From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Mar 11 02:13:36 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA20085
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:13:36 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA19945
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:12:33 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from ru@relay.ucb.crimea.ua)
Received: (from ru@localhost)
	by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26957
	for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:12:09 +0200 (EET)
	(envelope-from ru)
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Message-Id: <199803111012.MAA26957@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
Subject: Re: How do you assign the ROOT user to be able to access via TELNET?
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:12:09 +0200 (EET)
X-My-Interests: Unix,Oracle,Networking
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (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

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote:

> However, my next question is quite valid - how do I login as ROOT from a
> telnet session?  I would assume that it has been disabled for security
> reasons, but I need remote access.  I have already found out that to
> allow ROOT to access via FTP, you need to hash it out in the FTPUSERS
> file in /ETC.  No problem.  But there dosen't seem to be the same type
> of file for TELNET users?

It is login rather than telnet issue.

If you *really* want to be able to login directly as root, you'll need
to specify `secure' flag for each pseudo-tty line you use. This flag is
set by default for virtual terminals. See ttys(5) for details.

-- 
Ruslan Ermilov          System Administrator
ru@ucb.crimea.ua        United Commercial Bank
+380-652-247647         Simferopol, Crimea
2426679                 ICQ Network, UIN

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message