Re: [expert] Remote Access of Root

[Ellick Chan]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Fiedler wrote:

> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:24:46 +0300
> From: Richard Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Remote Access of Root
> 
> 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.
>

edit /etc/securetty

or better yet, switch to openssh, www.openssh.org
and use sftp, on ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake-crypto
 
> Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
> 

-- 
Regards,

Ellick Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 5