Topic: Root from telnet

[Evar]

How does root get in from other machine. How can i see root from telnet? please reply.

[Bobby]

Enable remote access in your server-manager.  I use SSH as telnet is less secure.  Then you just connect from another machine on your network to your e-Smith server with root as the username and your admin password.

~B

[Jelke van der Meer]

You have to use SecureSHell to be able to login as root via telnet.
With standard Telnet you can only logon as ADMIN.

[Rob Hillis]

Evar wrote:

> How does root get in from other machine. How can i see root
> from telnet? please reply.

Short version is "don't".  Enable SSH support instead, and use an SSH client such as Putty to allow command line access to your server.  Telnet is *horribly* insecure - it passes *everything* in clear text, so anyone with a packet sniffer on your network can use it to determine your root password.  SSH encrypts everything.