Richard
I think that the defaults for telnet and FTP can be changed to allow
root access. However I do not recommend this.
You should create another account with limited privileges that you
ftp/telnet into, and then su to root. This is a lot safer, and does not
require you to modify any files.
Also if you want an even more secure connection you can install SSH. That
will encrypt your sessions and will not pass plain text passwords as FTP and
telnet do.
Thanks
Dany Allard
Richard Fiedler wrote:
> I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want to
> log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system.
>
> Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
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