Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)
Well, you can login as root through telnet, but it's not recommended. I used
to do that alot on my Slackware setup, but it seems that Debian (at least
Slink) is set up to not let you do that. I'm sure you can change the
settings somehow, but it's simpler and more secure to login as a regular
user and then su. Try setting up ssh as well. It's a lot more secure and
automatically forwards your X connection (encripted, unlike simply setting
your display to the remote computer).
my $0.02
-igor
----- Original Message -----
From: Assad Khan <razor@iqsystems.net>
To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)
> John, first of all you can't login as root via telnet. It is probably
> something with telnetd or the kernel as security, also never log in as
root.
> A lot of exploits can be used and you can accidently format your whole
hard
> drive. Use su, but only use it when you need to, since only bad system
> administrators login as root all the time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
> To: Harte, Tiemen <T.HARTE@CGIAR.ORG>
> Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)
>
>
> >
> >First, give up on logging in as root over telnet unless you want to
ignore
> >about a dozen rules of thumb for computer security and override one or
two
> >built in safties. As for normal users, I haven't needed any special
perms
> >to get a few dozen friends to log into my box: you're sure that you have
> >telnetd installed? Perhaps the remote host is in hosts.deny (it sounds
> >like that might be the prob, but I really don't know for sure)? If you
> >really need to use the root account, first login as a user, then su. HTH
> >
> >On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Harte, Tiemen wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Debian people,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to telnet to my debian PC.
> >> I can get the login screen but I can't log in with the ROOT account or
a
> >> other account created with adduser.
> >> It's like my password is wrong, i keep getting the message "access
> denied".
> >>
> >> Do I need to give the account the rights to login via telnet from
another
> >> computer?
> >> And if that's it, what do I need to change?
> >>
> >> Groetjes, Tiemen
> >>
> >>
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> ><a mailto:galt@inconnu.isu.edu>Who is John Galt?</a>
> >
> >Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
> > -- Ferenc Mantfeld
> >
> >
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