you can do it with redhat, it's just disabled by default for security.
which brings up the question...how much more secure is it? you can login as
<user> run "su -" and be root. sure you have to know two passwords instead of
one, but anybody doing that is probably cracking so the second isn't that much
harder.
On 15-Jun-99 Michael Packer scribbled:
> "David G. Evans" wrote:
>
>> I may be wrong here, and I'm sure someone will correct me if I am, but...
>> I don't think that you can telnet in as root. I think you have to log in
>> as a user and then su to root.
>> Hope this helps (and I hope I'm right)
>
> this might be true for Redhat but not for all version of Linux. some
> version installed straight "out of the box" will allow root telnets...
>
> pac
>
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