At 17:05 2/27/2002 +0200, Ceyhun Kirmizitas wrote: >I am using RedHat 7.1. >My question is that How Can I modify telnet daemon so that >at login screen if someone enters "abcde" as username, it will logon >without password as root?
In the first place, telnetd is not enabled by default. You'll have to edit xinetd.conf to enable it. Secondly, telnet is disabled by default because it is a very insecure service. Passwords and all commands are sent unencrtypted across potentially unsecure networks. It is not hard to setup a network sniffer to capture passwords from telnet logins. If you really need to login as root remotely with no password, you should setup SSH using RSA authentication. You'll need to put root's key on the client machine, but this will work. If you really insist on doing this using telnet, you can create a user and set their UID and GID to 0 (zero). Delete the password field in /etc/shadow, and the user should be able to login without a password. After you do this, keep your Red Hat CD handy so you can reinstall the system after your box is cracked. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 Linux. the choice of a GNU generation. <http://www.linux.org/> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
