Re: [ILUG] Logging as root

From: Padraig Brady (padraig.brady at domain corvil.com)
Date: Fri 27 Sep 2002 - 16:44:10 IST

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Justin MacCarthy wrote:
> Hi, I know there is some setting / somewhere in RedHat, that allows root
> logon via telnet, can some remind me what it is ? Somewhere in a tty file ??

You really don't want to do that. In fact telnet (and ftp for that matter)
should be banned. Log in as a normal user and su -

Padraig.

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