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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.67.253.7!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!st-ursen.lightside.net!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Root Access Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:38:39 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <fred-2006971738390001@st-ursen.lightside.net> References: <33A0DBC3.3098@v-m.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: st-ursen.lightside.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43261 In article <33A0DBC3.3098@v-m.com>, marcin@v-m.com wrote: >I would like to be able to access my freeBSD server from outside..How do >I unable Root access from the outside using Telnet... > >Please reply by email > >marcin@v-m.com > >Thanks You can't login directly as root over telnet, but any user in the wheel group can su to root. Edit /etc/group to add the accounts you wish to have root access to the wheel group. -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party