Greetings!

I have just begun using Fedora Core (2.0) and need to be able to login as Root from time to time via FTP. Yet all attempts to do so have failed. E.g., permission denied.

I am able to login under my own User ID and navigate at will.

But I am curious though...what is involved in setting up so as to be able to login as Root through FTP?

Many thanks!

root login via ftp is disabled by default because you'd be transmitting your root password in clear text for anybody to see... in other words, it's an easy way to get OWNED...

Don't!

I remember a story from those happy times I worked as a linux admin.
My boss found out that a colleague of mine used root to login to our web server via ftp. He nearly fired him for being so stupid and me for allowing root to login via ftp.
Now I lough on it but then.. You can imagine.

Either user non-root for ftp or use scp (yes, you can use root with scp/ssh).

R.

also sftp is good...

Ah! I should have remembered. Yes, you cannot FTP in but you can via SFTP and/or SSH.

Thanks!

is it safe to login as root over ssh?

yes, as the password is encrypted... but you should still disable the option of root login via ssh for additional security...

when root login via ssh is disabled, you can still become root by using "su" once you log-in to your regular account ...

it's an additional layer of security... even if an attacker actually guesses your correct root password, he'll still get a "permission denied" error just like if the password was wrong... and sshd won't let him know that it's actually denying the login, it'll look to him exactly as if the password was wrong...

if you wanna do this, then the file to edit is /etc/ssh/sshd_config

just make sure you have this option set:

PermitRootLogin no

good luck...