On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Tomt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Before I ask my question I want to give you all an update. I have posted > here before when I was having a problem with my nic card not working and > all the suggestions as to what could be the problem are greatly > appreciated. I would like to say that I figured out what the problem was > but I can't. I just played with it a little and it started to work. <gasp> > Sounds like a MS operating system <G> > > Heres my next question, > > Now that that I got everything working, I was telneting into my linux box > and just playing around. > > One thing I have noticed is that I cannot login as root across a telnet > connection. > Anyone tell me why? And if its possible to change that to were I can login > through telnet?
Security (not only against the outside) > > I want to be able to have a computer were I can login through telnet and do > about anything. And no I'm not worried about security, it's not even going > to get connected to the internet just my lan. The easiest way is to login as a normal user then 'su'. Only become root when you absolutely need to so you won't accidently do 'rm -rf /' or such. I use su and sudo a lot when telnetting. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
