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Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] telnet as root
- From: roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Aaron R Seelye)
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:57:26 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-id: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980812155359.14083A-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, sm wrote:
>
> HihO...
>
> > Can someone please tell me how to configure SuSE to allow root to telnet!
>
> do you have problems running telnet as root, or do you want to login from
> a remote computer as root ???
>
> if the second is your problem- log in as normal user and make a su
Telnetting and su'ing as root is fine if you don't care about security
(the very reason you can't telnet, and shouldn't, as root). If you don't
want people listening in (or not having the chance to), get ssh and sshd.
It's encrypted and readily accepts root logins.
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