View Single Post
Old 08-29-2007, 07:58 PM   #10
bsdunix
Senior Member
 
Registered: May 2006
Distribution: BeOS, BSD, Caldera, CTOS, Debian, LFS, Mac, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, Solaris, SuSE
Posts: 1,761

Rep: Reputation: 80
Quote:
C:\>telnet 192.168.10.1
server.example.com (Linux release 2.6.9-5.EL #1 Wed Jan 5 19:22:18 EST 2005) (1)
login: root
Red Hat recommends that you use SSH to connect to a system instead of Telnet for security purposes. Passwords are transmitted in plain text when you use telnet. For this reason, the root user is not allowed to connect using telnet by default.

How do I telnet as the root user?
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_45_453.shtm