I'm not sure if anybody replied yet but telnet as root is such a bad
idea that the telnet daemon won't even let you do it! Nothing is wrong
with your root account.
Telnet is an unencrypted protocol, therefore your password and username
travel in plain text. I have (and I recommend if you can) disabled
telnet on my linux box (comment the telnet line in inetd.conf). Do this
especially if you're on a network, telnet packet sniffing is a trivial
task on LANs.
Use SSH instead, http://www.ssh.fi/. SSH uses strong encryption for the
*entire* remote session. SSH has a very loose license, you get the
source code and you can use it free for academic purposes. You must get
SSH windows clients to connect on the SSH protocol though (you can't use
your old telnet program), but some windows clients are free.
By the way. There is an ongoing effort to create a GPL protocol
compliant to SSH 2.0 at http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/psst/
It's not done yet but looks very interesting. There you can get further
info on SSH clients too.
Later,
Kervin
Shane McKeown wrote:
>
> Well, I can login as a user no problem.
> But is there a way to enable root login?
>
> Shane
>
> --- Mark E Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Shane McKeown wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all, I am trying to telnet into my Linux box
> > > from WinNT. Where can I find info on this
> > subject?
> >
> > You need to make sure that telnet is enabled on the
> > linux box. Do a `cat
> > /etc/inetd.conf | grep telnet`. If it returns a line
> > like the following:
> >
> > telnet stream tcp nowait root
> > /usr/sbin/tcpd
> > /usr/sbin/in.telnetsnoopd
> >
> > and the line does _not_ have a comment mark "#" in
> > front of it, the you
> > are in business. This is the default on most newly
> > installed boxen.
> >
> > You also need networking setup. Go to
> > http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ and
> > read the Net3-HOWTO and the Network Administrators
> > Guide if you need
> > help here.
> >
> > Then just click Start|Run and type in telnet. Then
> > enter the name of the
> > Linux box in the dialog that comes up.
> >
> > If you run into problems let me know.
> >
> > --
> >
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