Re: root telnet

["Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <uhlar@fantomas.sk>]

-> > -> How to make telnetd accept root login ?
-> > 
-> > are you nuts ?
-> > use ssh at least...
-> 
-> If you really must allow root access, after adding the relevent entries to
-> the /etc/securrity file. You *could* then restrict root access to limited 
-> hosts via the /etc/login.access file. (OK I guess you could do this via 
-> hosts.allow/deny too).
-> 
-> In login.access add a line like...
-> 
-> -:root:ALL EXCEPT some.host1 some.other.host LOCAL
-> 
-> That will allow root logins only from local (console) and some.host1 and
-> some.other.host

and I'll recommend to define in sshd.conf:

UseLogin yes

-> Might not be the best way, but better than just allowing root access from
-> anywhere (suicide).

-> Of course you could always login as another user and then 'su -' to root.

That's the preferred way by 9 of 10 sysadmins ;-)


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 Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia
 BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz
 Silvester Stallone: Father of the RISC concept.