>I'm going away on vacation, and I want to be able to configure my system
>from away. How do I enable the root account to be accessable through
>telnet? I know I can su, but that doesn't give me access to all the
>commands I need (such as useradd).
Huh? You log in as yourself and then "su - root". I do not know if secure
shell can be enabled when you do the su to root. I know you can do a secure
shell for the initial login.
And why don't you have access to adduser after doing a su to root?
>Also, if I do this, is it going to pose a serious security problem? My
>system has no sensitive data, it's just a personal PC, but I would like to
>know if it's open to the world or not if I enable remote root access.
It is no more open to the world than it is now. The login as root over
telnet is not turned on.
MB
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