Re: Telnet

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote:

> Hi everyone, 
> 
> Before I ask my question I want to give you all an update. I have posted
> here before when I was having a problem with my nic card not working and
> all the suggestions as to what could be the problem are greatly
> appreciated.  I would like to say that I figured out what the problem was
> but I can't. I just played with it a little and it started to work. <gasp>
> Sounds like a MS operating system <G>
> 
> Heres my next question, 
> 
> Now that that I got everything working, I was telneting into my linux box
> and just playing around. 
> 
> One thing I have noticed is that I cannot login as root across a telnet
> connection. 
> Anyone tell me why?  And if its possible to change that to were I can login
> through telnet?

Security  (not only against the outside)

> 
> I want to be able to have a computer were I can login through telnet and do
> about anything. And no I'm not worried about security, it's not even going
> to get connected to the internet just my lan.

The easiest way is to login as a normal user then 'su'.  Only become root
when you absolutely need to so you won't accidently do 'rm -rf /' or such.
I use su and sudo a lot when telnetting.

Bob

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