There are sound technical reasons(tm) for not connecting as root. That is
why it is not a config file option.
You can't normally connect as root to ftp or any other remote service, it
is not just netatalk that enforces this.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Martin Wilhelm Leidig wrote:
> Hi, folks!
>
> I'm using netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 on LinuxPPC Q3 (based on Red
> Hat 6.something) and want to connect as root from MacOS D-8.1.
> "Normal" user log in is fine, but root login seems impossible.
>
> On
> <http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/archive/admins/1998/1861.html> I
> found that:
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Date: Thu Oct 08 1998 - 01:22:37 EDT
> [...]
> >to connect as root, comment out the "if uid == 0" part in
> >afpd/auth.c
> [...]
> >On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, jesse reynolds wrote:
> [...]
> >> Now i'm wondering why it is I can't connect as root...
>
> Is there no other way? I'd like to use some configuration file
> or other trick rather than hacking source files and compiling.
>
> Thanks for all!
>
>
> -Moss-
>
>
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