On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:22:23AM -0500, Dustin Coates wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Erik Norgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 September 2006 09:42
To: Jim Borland
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Can't log in a root from anywhere but the console screen.
Jim Borland wrote:
I want to use a PC to telnet to the freeBSD server and login as root
but it won't let me! Can you help? I can login as a normal user just
not as root, I can't key in su to get in as superuser either.
1) Don't use telnet, use ssh, for security.
2) Are you in the wheel group?
Erik suggested I use ssh, I've never used ssh before and when I do it
says the connection has been refused.
The root user is in the wheel group, I have a user called jim which
is in a group called group he is able to login using telnet.
The best thing to do is to add the user jim to the wheel group, then you
should be able to login as him over ssh, then su to superuser, and do
virtually everything root can do. It is considered a security risk to allow
root access to ssh. But it's your server. So if you want root to be able to
login despite my warning. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and find
#PermitRootLogin no, remove the hash, and change the no to yes
First, sshd is not running, that is why the connection has been refused
messages is being seen. put sshd_enable=yes in /etc/rc.conf.
Look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf, it is your friend, and any daemon that you
want to run, must have xyz_enable=yes in the /etc/rc.conf, if it conforms
to the current FreeBSD mores.
Also, as suggested above, add jim to the wheel group, this will allow you
to su to root.
Take a look at the
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
google and the above document, will answer a lot of your questions.
I Can't say in strong enough terms, how Bad and idea it is to have root
allowed for ssh, or even worse, to use telnet, especially over the Internet.
Good luck, FreeBSD is how we've run our servers for years, and have been solid
work horses.
A.G.
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