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Title: Root from telnet
Post by: Evar on December 06, 2001, 09:26:04 PM

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

Title: Re: Root from telnet
Post by: Bobby on December 06, 2001, 10:59:27 PM

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

Title: Re: Root from telnet
Post by: Jelke van der Meer on December 07, 2001, 01:03:28 AM

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

Title: Re: Root from telnet
Post by: Rob Hillis on December 07, 2001, 06:09:08 AM

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.