On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > Maybe Red Hat 6.1 won't let a remote root in? Have you tried as a
> > regular user?
> Wondered about that myself. I think root logins from remote are
> disabled by default in both distros. To be root in another
> machine, login as a regular user and then su.
>
But SSH is NOT a "telnet" or remote login as such. You actually BECOME the user
you specify when using SSH. i.e. if you do an "ssh2 -l root <systemname>" you
are getting the same priveleges as if you were logged in as root from the local
console. That's one of the benefits of SSH over a regular telnet, is that you
CAN log in as "root" from remote, no matter whether or not remote logins as
root are permitted.
John
