Re: remote login to root

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Root login by remote would be a bad bad thing!  Imagine...  all people
need is one little piece of info (your root passwd) to crack your system.

What you need to do is log in a regular user and type either 'su' or 'su
-' (the latter is recommened).  These will tranform you into root (you
must type in the root passwd).

This way, a villain needs to know three things to get into your system: A
regular user's name, that user's passwd, AND your root passwd.

Another thing you can use to empower normal users is sudo.  I don't think
most distributions come with it so you'll have to find it
(http://www.freshmeat.net) and install it.
--

Wesley Leonard
marshall@pacdemon.org

http://www.pacdemon.org
"...I want Linux to be on the cutting edge, and even a bit past the edge,
because what's past the edge today is what's on your desktop tomorrow."
 --Linus Torvalds
"John M. Mario" wrote:

> Please excuse the newbie question.  This is my third day playing with
> linux.  When I telnet to my linux server, I am not able to login as
> root.
> Is this a security feature?  How do I enable root to login remotely?
>
> Thanks is advance!
>
> John Mario