Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-18 Thread Ramesh Panuganty
, April 17, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: Allow root to telnet Hi, I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to aDebian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way to allow this to happen. I have had a look through the man pages, and looked

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
It's probably easier to set up ssh, and access as a normal user and the su. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Watts wrote: Hi, I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-18 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Michael Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way to allow this to happen. That is because it is one of the worse ideas around. If you allow root

Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Watts
Hi, I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to aDebian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way to allow this to happen. I have had a look through the man pages, and looked into /etc/securetty but get stuck there. Do I have to add

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Dave Price
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:32:45AM +0800, Michael Watts wrote: Hi, I am having trouble with a few services and want to allow root to telnet to a Debian 2.2r5 system for testing purposes, but can not find the way to allow this to happen. Can't you achieve the same thing by connecting

Re: Allow root to telnet

2002-04-17 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Michael Watts wrote: I have had a look through the man pages, and looked into /etc/securetty but get stuck there. Do I have to add an entry for telnet to securetty to allow root to login that way? Or is it done elsewhere?? Add ttyp0, etc (I think) to /etc/securetty and