Mark Woods wrote:

Chris Shaw wrote:

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..)


No, not under any distro I'm familiar with... It's under /etc/securetty...
You add the tty of the device you want to allow root access to, like
pts/0... DON'T DO THIS THOUGH, unless you don't care that your root password
will be sent PLAINTEXT over the internet...




He may not be telneting to it across the internet. He may only be doing it from his local network.

That being said, I like almost everyone else, recommend ssh *and* su, though I'm guilty of logging in as root across the internet with ssh.

Nah. Private key authentication is probably more secure for this. I have my ssh servers generally set up to require key authentication and deny password authentication. This does effectively force me to su with ssh because I haven't set up the key authentication for the root account, but I am still not sure that there is that much more to be gained.


Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
Metatron Technology Consulting
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