first a happy new year !! my English is not very good, so i hope that everybody understandt me. My question: I want to login as root on my ftp-serive, but i cannot. The login is incorrect. What is to do to solve the problem
I don't know if there is better way, but I already login as normal user and 'su' to have root access. Hope this solve your problem for the moment. Dennis @Singapore first a happy new year !! my English is not very good, so i hope that everybody understandt me. My question: I want to login as root on my ftp-serive, but i cannot. The login is incorrect. What is to do to solve the problem
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, icepic wrote:
first a happy new year !!
my English is not very good, so i hope that everybody understandt me.
My question:
I want to login as root on my ftp-serive, but i cannot. The login is incorrect. What is to do to solve the problem
If you really really really need to log in as root over ftp (this is VERY, EXTREMELY and TOTALLY NOT smart ;-)) then remove root from /etc/ftpusers. But be aware that you are sending your root password unencrypted over the internet. If you need to transfer files as root you'd be better off using scp or sftp (see man scp). Stefan
first a happy new year !!
same to you
my English is not very good, so i hope that everybody understandt me.
It's good enough to know what your problem is...
My question:
I want to login as root on my ftp-serive, but i cannot. The login is incorrect. What is to do to solve the problem
This is absolutely normal. AFAIK all ftp-servers have disabled root-login by default. You should leave this as it is and use a normal, non-priviledged account for login with ftp. Only, and really only, if the ftp-server is only in a LAN and noone else except of you has access to the server, may it be local or over network, you could enable root-login. I don't know which ftp-server you use. Each server has a different config-file and different options to enable/disable default-settings. But, as I said, it's best to leave it as it is. The risks are too big. ... just my 2 cents ... --- Stephan -------------------------------------------- Stephan M. Ott // OKDesign oHG Internet-Providing und Netzwerkmanagement smo@okdesign.de ..... http://www.okdesign.de fon. +49 961 3814139 .. fax. +49 961 3814140 mobil 0171-8351130 ... oder ... 0171-7858064 --------------------------------------------
icepic wrote:
I want to login as root on my ftp-serive, but i cannot. The login is incorrect. What is to do to solve the problem
Delete the line "root" /etc/ftpusers. (Note: From the security point of view, using ftp as root is not a good idea, because the password is sent unencrypted.) Best Wishes, Ralf Laue
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, icepic wrote:
first a happy new year !!
Well thank you !
My question:
I want to login as root on my ftp-serive, but i cannot. The login is incorrect. What is to do to solve the problem
This behaviour is depending on your ftp-server, so it probably should be configured in sth like /etc/proftpd.conf You could also check /etc/ftpusers which holds users *NOT* allowed to log into the system through ftp. Apart from these indications, you should note that an ftp-connection passes the password as CLEARTEXT over the network, so anybody on the network can snoop for your pasword. don't do it, don't ftp as root. even more: don't use root at all (unless you really, really, really have to). - -- Groetjes vanwege... Greetings from... -- - -- Dieter Demerre *** ddemerre@acm.org -- - -- http://www.angelfire.com/de/ddemerre/ -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBOlNHkwlG34XnM6kpEQKmTACg3gvZBzmEltyMiF+DBcLYcfx/v8UAoLNd WYO/TrwKM7c0+iH3xJLjIj5Z =aqfT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dennis wrote:
I don't know if there is better way, but I already login as normal user and 'su' to have root access. Hope this solve your problem for the moment.
I think this solution of yours (apart from being working of course), is
not that secure since the su-process is executed after a login (telnet?
rlogin?) which passes all key-strokes as clear-text over the network. If
you would use ssh, communication would be encrypted(*)
Furthermore I think the original question was about ftp-login. I presume
icepic
Hello,
I want to login as root on my ftp-serive, but i cannot. The login is incorrect. What is to do to solve the problem
There's really no need to login as root to your ftp service. Check out the following things: -Allow remote root login in /etc/rc.config (ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE = YES) -Check out your ftp client and configure it correctly using the the config files in /etc Greetinx Oliver Grube Network Security Engineer ******************************************** iT_SEC - enabling trusted ebusiness ******************************************** iT_SEC Deutschland GmbH Dünner Strasse 247, 41066 Mönchengladbach T: +49 2161 6897-0 // F: +49 2161 6897-199
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