on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:32:58AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen (e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl) wrote: > This should be obvious, but I have not been able to find it myself... > > I would like to access my system (all local) as root directly. Now I > telnet as ordinary user and su to root for maintanance. I know this is > considered 'bad practice', but I would like to be able to do this > anyway. Don't. Certainly not through telnet. I'd ***STRONGLY*** suggest you remove the telnet daemon from your system. Install ssh. root access is denied by default, but it's safer than telnet. Better yet, use sudo. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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