From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 19:51:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02821 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cal007109.student.utwente.nl (cal007109.student.utwente.nl [130.89.221.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02787 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin-ml@woudt.nl) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=desktop) by cal007109.student.utwente.nl with smtp (Exim 2.02 #2) id 0z8yJP-0001MN-00; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 04:49:23 +0200 From: "Edwin Woudt" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sanne@portalinc.com Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 04:52:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: root access on telnet Reply-to: edwin-ml@woudt.nl In-reply-to: <35DB1251.E847BC27@snap.portalinc.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01a) Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hello, > > I have a question how can I enable a telnet using root account ???? You can't login as root directly, but you have to make a new user and put it in group wheel. Then after you log in as this user you can type 'su', enter the root password et voila: you are root. Edwin ===================================================================== Edwin Woudt ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Calslaan 7-109 `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) 7522 MH Enschede edwin@woudt.nl (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' The Netherlands _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ICQ: 1156462 (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' +31 53 489 5010 ===================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message