Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Brian Bothern
Brett A. Noe wrote: > > As far as your telnet question... Telnet in as a regular user, at the > prompt type: su -l. You will then get a prompt for the root password. > Enter your root password and your all set. You don't need the -l just su will do it fine. Brian Bothern > -- > Brett A. Noe >

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
James Youngman wrote: > > > "sw" == Sean Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sw> 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root > sw> to telnet in? > > Don't do that. Telet in as yourself and then use su(1). . . . and before you run into the problem where

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Brett A. Noe
As far as your telnet question... Telnet in as a regular user, at the prompt type: su -l. You will then get a prompt for the root password. Enter your root password and your all set. -- Brett A. Noe Network Administrator Ink & Image, Inc. >>>http://www.inkimage.com<<< -- PLEASE read the Red

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Bruce Tong
> > 2. Any sources for info on Samba? (I want to (secretly) replace a NT > > file server.) > > Paper Reference: > SAMBA: Integrating UNIX and Windows by John D. Blair, SAMBA Team. > Published by SSC > > man smbd > man nmbd > > vi /etc/smb.conf Another handy man reference: man smb.conf And s

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Cristian KAMENICZKI
Hi Sean! On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Sean Winters wrote: > 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root > to telnet in? You can try editing /etc/securetty and adding there ttyp0, ttyp1, ttyp2, and so on. But allowing root to login by telnet directly is not a good idea, for sec

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread James Youngman
> "sw" == Sean Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sw> 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root sw> to telnet in? Don't do that. Telet in as yourself and then use su(1). -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 00:45 6/25/98 -0500, Sean Winters wrote: >Just got RH 5.0 installed and networking. I have a few questions that >would really help if I could get them solved. > >1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root >to telnet in? You *really* don't want to do this. /etc/secu

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread chuck . mead
On 25 Jun, Sean Winters shaped the bitstream to say: > Just got RH 5.0 installed and networking. I have a few questions that > would really help if I could get them solved. > > 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root > to telnet in? Telnet for root is a horrible

Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Sean Winters
Just got RH 5.0 installed and networking. I have a few questions that would really help if I could get them solved. 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root to telnet in? 2. Any sources for info on Samba? (I want to (secretly) replace a NT file server.) 3. Any ideas