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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Privileged telnet access help request. Date: 3 Oct 1995 16:10:50 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <44rjpq$co4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <44p20e$fa0@thrush.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Paul Happ <phapp@top.monad.net> wrote: >Hello, >I've got FreeBSD 2.0.5 installed and running on a 486 system remote to >me. I'd like to be able to work remotely as root or su via telnet. We >have changed my group to wheel but that group is not allowed access >via telnet. That's not true. Only a direct uid 0 login is prohibited. You can always log in as yourself via telnet, and then do an "su". That's what most people around prefer over offering direct root logins on pty's. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)