Well, you can login as root through telnet, but it's not recommended. I used to do that alot on my Slackware setup, but it seems that Debian (at least Slink) is set up to not let you do that. I'm sure you can change the settings somehow, but it's simpler and more secure to login as a regular user and then su. Try setting up ssh as well. It's a lot more secure and automatically forwards your X connection (encripted, unlike simply setting your display to the remote computer).
my $0.02 -igor ----- Original Message ----- From: Assad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 1:38 PM Subject: Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie) > John, first of all you can't login as root via telnet. It is probably > something with telnetd or the kernel as security, also never log in as root. > A lot of exploits can be used and you can accidently format your whole hard > drive. Use su, but only use it when you need to, since only bad system > administrators login as root all the time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Harte, Tiemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 12:36 PM > Subject: Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie) > > > > > >First, give up on logging in as root over telnet unless you want to ignore > >about a dozen rules of thumb for computer security and override one or two > >built in safties. As for normal users, I haven't needed any special perms > >to get a few dozen friends to log into my box: you're sure that you have > >telnetd installed? Perhaps the remote host is in hosts.deny (it sounds > >like that might be the prob, but I really don't know for sure)? If you > >really need to use the root account, first login as a user, then su. HTH > > > >On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Harte, Tiemen wrote: > > > >> Hi Debian people, > >> > >> I'm trying to telnet to my debian PC. > >> I can get the login screen but I can't log in with the ROOT account or a > >> other account created with adduser. > >> It's like my password is wrong, i keep getting the message "access > denied". > >> > >> Do I need to give the account the rights to login via telnet from another > >> computer? > >> And if that's it, what do I need to change? > >> > >> Groetjes, Tiemen > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > >> > > > ><a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Who is John Galt?</a> > > > >Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > > -- Ferenc Mantfeld > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
