Yeah, I thought that might have been the case.
Is there a sater way, it's on my local, exclusive network (may connect to
'net one day)
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 10:29am
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Logging in as root trough telnet
Cameron Kerr wrote:
>
> Why is it that I can telnet to my box as an unprivilidged user, but not as
> root?
<sarcastic mode on>
...erm, now let me think about that for a minute. If anyone could telnet
into your box as root I wonder if that might just pose some kinda
security risk?
</sarcastic mode off>
Sorry, but seriously though, it would pose an immense security risk to
allow someone to telnet as root.
