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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!cs.utk.edu!usenet From: Chris Larson <larson@cs.utk.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: V 2.1 "XFree86" Installation questions Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:09:35 -0500 Organization: University of Tennessee Computer Science Lines: 23 Message-ID: <30F400DF.41C67EA6@cs.utk.edu> References: <4ce4pv$plp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4cem28$p1@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Malone wrote: > > dabloodgod@aol.com (DABLOODGOD) writes: > > >3) Finally, as Im fooling with this, it would be really handy if I could > >use telnet from the other machine on my 2 machine lan, to login as root, > >in order to kill / shutdown or modify files, rather than having to reboot > >once X hangs up. Is there some incantation that allows root to login over > > Can't you put yourself in group wheel and then su to root ? Also > ctrl-alt-backspace should kill the X server. > Remote root logins aren't usually allowed by default for security reasons. The easiest thing to do is to log in as your self and use the "su" command. You do know the root password don't you? Either "su root" or "su" by itself does the same thing. -- Chris Larson larson@cs.utk.edu Lab Assistant-Backups Computer Science Dept. University of Tennessee- Knoxville