Re: Root access

[Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>]

Hi,

it is a bad habit to acces your system as root via telnet, but if you
really want to:
add a line like this to /etc/securetty:
pts/0
pts/1

These are the terminals which allows root login, so this will enable root
login on two connections.

Better use ssh and Putty if you are working from a windoze machine. It is
more flexible too.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan


On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Erik van der Meulen 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.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
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>   Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>
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