Re: root access via FTP
Just about every ftp server I have ever seen offers you the login of the user
you are logged in as. I just logged in as root on my own Sarge system and
ftp'd to localhost and was offered a root login....that doesn't mean I can get
in as root...it's simply offered up as a convenience.
Justin Pryzby (justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net) wrote:
>
> I just reread your subject. You're "offered" a root ftp login? What
> program?
>
> Justin
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:04:39PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:59:34PM +0100, JP Glutting wrote:
> > > For some reason, when I log into Sarge, I am offered to login as root
> > > by default. Up until today, I was offered to login with my username. I
> > Offered? I take it you are using {k,g,x}dm?
> >
> > > am surprised by this, since I though root logins were turned off by
> > > default.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else noticed this?
> > I hadn't, but someone was complaing that they couldn't log into root
> > from kdm, so I, too, am surprised.
>
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