| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:00:09 -0500 |
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:28:30PM -0500, Paul wrote: > Other thing is that root, by default, is not allowed to directly, > remotely login. Says who? Under what specific circumstances? Many distributions, operating systems, and daemons that perform logins (login(1), sshd(8), pam(8)) may default to this, but it's always configurable. > try logging in as a regular user first. Then, su - to > root. Please don't do that via telnet if you're crossing a public network. > Actually, start sshd and try "ssh username@hostname". Far better advice. And to avoid ever passing the root password over the network, even enciphered, I recomend (as I have before) using SSH PKI authentication to login directly as root rather than using su(1). -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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