thank u for your advise! but now i am in a very save local network ,and the su return sorry in my telnet, so is that mean i have to go to ssh? or can i chage some file to enable it thank u and best wishes
On 4/24/05, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 06:09:38PM +0800, kylin wrote: > > i find it difficult to use root account when i telnet to freebsd 5.3 > > release , anything need to change? > > You're not supposed to log in as root over telnet. It would expose the root > password to anybody intercepting your IP traffic. > > It would be advisable to log in as a normal user via ssh (secure shell) > and then su to root. Even if your ssh keys were compromised, an attacker > would only gain access as a normal user. And since all communications > are encrypted, it would be hard for an listener to get the root password. > > Roland > -- > R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail > http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail > public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards > > > -- we who r about to die,salute u! _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
