Telnetting to comp does not allow Root login
When i try telnetting to my comp on my network at home, it lets me login as any user on my comp or as a "guest", but it will not let me login as root.. Most of the other problems I have seen with other people is that it only works with root and not the other users. Any suggestions?
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Telnet? Use ssh instead.
To use root you would just 'su' to root and provide the password. This is a security feature. It allows you to login as a guest? Yikes. Do you want it to? |
Sounds like your telnet is set up not to allow root logins. This is a security feature that is set. It is best to login using the username, then su to root. If you feel you must login in as root, I am sure there is a place in the config. file you can change this. Also, when you use telnet your username and password and set unencrypted and any door knob with a packet sniffer could find out your password. You should look into SSH, it is much safer.
Mike |
Thanks for the responses...I actually use SSH, but I was curious why I couldn't connect to my machine using my root username through telnet...was wondering where those settings were.
-Keerthan |
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#auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required pam_nologin.so account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth session optional pam_console.so the snippet above is the contents in the file, just comment out the line that says 'auth required pam_securetty.so' but everyone in this post is right (i think u understand why), use SSH instead ... :) |
Thanks yangkuo ...that worked great. :cool: ....I was also wondering what the significance of the other commands in that file were and what they kind of mean if you wouldn't mind telling me. Well, thanks again.
-Keerthan |
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Sounds good :cool:
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'man pam' huhhuh(In my best Beavis and Butthead voice) that sounds funny.
Man Pam, you are one crazy lady. |
the other day I had to type in "less cat" (huhhuh)
My boss gets worried about "killall ..." |
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