Re: Telnet and NIS queries

1999-01-29 Thread mike
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Your "problem" with telnet session is very simple - by default FreeBSD > doesn't allow anybody to login as "root" through insecure connection (see > /etc/ttys). This can be changed by editing /etc/ttys to make Pseudo *doh* Yes, it's /etc/ttys *not* log

Re: Telnet and NIS queries

1999-01-29 Thread mike
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Tim Preece wrote: > scratch2 login: LOGIN root REFUSED (NOROOT) from scratch1.netlink on TTY > ttyp0 As long as I can remember, root logins have always been refused over network connections. If you want to login as root over a network (bad habbit, but ok for your own, privat

Re: Telnet and NIS queries

1999-01-29 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Dear Tim, Your "problem" with telnet session is very simple - by default FreeBSD doesn't allow anybody to login as "root" through insecure connection (see /etc/ttys). This can be changed by editing /etc/ttys to make Pseudo terminals to be "secure" (hovewer it compromises the security, you need to

Telnet and NIS queries

1999-01-29 Thread Tim Preece
Hi, I am having a few problems with my v.small network. I have 2 boxes both pc's, one running FreeBSD nearly current (Updated begin Jan) and the other running 3.0 release. Firstly I was able to telnet to 127.0.0.1 and log in as root, however now even this seems to be causing problems the same as