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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!not-for-mail From: Tim Hansen <thansen@americafirst.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can 'root' login through telnet connection? Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:10:14 -0600 Organization: AFCU Lines: 18 Message-ID: <33C52586.123F4B0@americafirst.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970710115742.582A-100000@hell.sh.cvut.cz> <sjh2q5.5gs.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> Reply-To: thansen@xmission.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.81.136.34 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44243 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > Allowing root logins from outside is a bad idea, which is why it's > disabled by default. > > Login as yourself and su to root. > > -- > Conrad Sabatier | FreeBSD user since 06/96, because... > > http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads | "The best things in life are free" I tried that and got a message that I was "not in the correct group to su to root." I agree that it is not best but I need to do one or the other and the group think is a new one to me. Any idea's? Tim Hansen