login as root through telnet

Sir_George · 07-20-2006, 09:57 AM

I've installed Red Hut 7.0 and i've set the various parameters in order to allow me to login as root through a telnet session from a remote terminal. i'm not able successfully login as the system returns an invalid login message. Is there anything that I missed out in my configuration using the chkconfig command? Help

pljvaldez · 07-20-2006, 10:01 AM

Is this a production server? You are aware that telnet sends passwords as clear text, so anybody monitoring your session will be able to learn your root password... You could login as a user and then su to root.

As I haven't used telnet in a few years, I don't know for sure if there's anything else. Are you sure you're using the right password? In ssh, you just change the line in sshd_config to say "rootLogin Yes"

Capt_Caveman · 07-20-2006, 04:57 PM

Agreed. If this box is on *any* sort of untrusted LAN (and I mean literally every host is 100% trusted and isolated from the internet), then running telnet by itself is a very bad idea. Logging in as root over telnet (even via su -) is a ludicrously bad idea. Run ssh instead.