It's a security problem being able to login as root. You should have a
regular user that you use for day to day usage because you can break your
machine all to hell with just a little typo as root. Use that user to
telnet in and use 'su' to become root. That way you have a log of exactly
who becomes root. On redhat you have a file called /etc/securetty that
lists all the terminals that root is allowed to login on. If you still
want to be able to, then just say 'ls /dev/tty* > /etc/securetty' and that
will let you telnet in as root, but again this is strongly not advised.
-CJO-
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I was wondering, why it is that in redhat linux you cannot do a telnet login
>directly as root. what would make it so that you cannot log in as root
>directly on telnet ? I am very curious to see how this mechanism works, i f
>anyone has any suggestions .. thanx in advance
>
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>
C.J. Oster (Linux Guru/Surge Addict)
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