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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!usc!newshub.cts.com!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!dcs59.dcsi.net!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can 'root' login through telnet connection? Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:05:42 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <fred-1007971705420001@dcs59.dcsi.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970710115742.582A-100000@hell.sh.cvut.cz> <sjh2q5.5gs.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> <33C52586.123F4B0@americafirst.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dcs59.dcsi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.3.1 X-no-archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44258 In article <33C52586.123F4B0@americafirst.com>, thansen@xmission.com wrote: >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 Only members of the group 'wheel' may su to root. Edit /etc/group to add the accounts you wish to have root access via su to group wheel. Catch-22, you have to be root to edit /etc/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