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From: jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Not able to login using ftp
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|> You cannot login remotely using root at first step. Then if you are not
|> logging in as root means check hosts-allow/deny in /etc, and allow the
|> machine from which you are trying.
|
|Taking the risk of being OT slightly to this thread -- is is _NOT_ at all
|possible to log in as root thru remote access, perhaps with telnet/ssh/scp
|etc. ? With even changing the permissions, etc. ?
|
|I think I've known a few admins, who have their servers colo'd in some high
|bandwidth service provider, while they're managing the software part for
|provinding services such as hosting/appl services etc. from a remote
|location ..that's possible, isn't it ?
There are number of ways root business can be accomplished from with su and
sudo,
And you still insist on remote root login, then change /etc/securetty to
reflect the device.
Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - www.betacomp.com
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