On Tue Mar 14 2000 at 23:49, Manohar Pradhan wrote:
> SK> When i try to connect to my Red hat machine from another machine thro
> SK> telnet. It takes much time to get the login prompt. I also can't login as
> SK> root.
> Telnetting using root shall be provided using following entries in
> /etc/securetty
>
> ttyp0
> ttyp1
> ttyp2
> ...
>
> This way you can allow as many no. of ROOT-Telnet.
WARNING! WARNING!
Do NOT change the default root access in /etc/securetty to allow
network logins as root. Never.
Telnet in as a user, then su to root.
Or use ssh (much, MUCH better) which WILL (by default) allow you to do
a secure, protected, encrypted and data-compressed login session as
root.
Cheers
Tony
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