Hello. To answer your question, root is a restricted account. It is too powerful to trust a telnet connection. So, you telnet (preferably SSH) in as a normal user, and then type `su -` and enter the root password. Su (short for SuperUser?) allows you to become root. The - specifies to load all of root's environment variables.
If you really want to be able to telnet in as root, locate telnetd.conf or somesuch and it should be in there somewhere as a yes/no. (It is for ssh anyway..) -Ejay > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of neil > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 4:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root > > Sorry if this is posted to the wrong forum but as it is > related to a problem I have with Asterisk it may just scrape through!! > > > > I am running Fedora 1 and I can telnet in to my asterisk box > as any user except root and am using the same credentials as > logging in locally. I am new to Linux and any help would be > gratefully appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > Neil > > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
