Anthony. You can log in as a regular user, then su to root. Do 'su - root'
to get root's path setup properly. There is no need to log in as root
ever, and as others have said, you are much better off with ssh and sudo.

hth
charles

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Anthony Capone wrote:

> I would like to login as root remotely to make minor ajustments but then I
> can re-edit the securetty file to take away root access. My only question is
> that how do I logon onto one of those terminals? I tryed telnetting to the
> machine and I tryed to login but to no avail...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Anthony

<mucho snippage>



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