[Sheflug] telnet as root?

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Ruth" == Ruth Gunstone <ruth [at] bolsterstone.demon.co.uk> writes:

    Ruth> Hi again, I can telnet to my linux box as user 'ruthie', but
    Ruth> not as 'root' ("Login Incorrect"), even though I know I'm
    Ruth> using the correct root password. I presume this is a
    Ruth> security feature, but a pain when I need to create or alter
    Ruth> a file which is in (e.g.) /var/www

    Ruth> What's the proper way to do this? Should I be able to telnet
    Ruth> in as root?


Ruth,

Telnet does not encrypt passwords or another other information
transmitted.

Logging in as any user these days via telnet is a Bad Thing (tm), with
SSH being the prefered method - SSH encrypts everything, allows
logging in without having to type a password (it uses public/private
keys), compression and secure file copying (scp), and all sorts of
interesting things.

SSH should be installed, or at least available on most distributions.

You'll still need to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change 

PermitRootLogin  no

to

PermitRootLogin  yes

There are SSH clients for many platforms - check out http://www.openssh.org/

You'll find SSH much more useful than telnet - especially if you're
regularly copying files around and don't want to be typing passwords
every 5 seconds - i.e. html files to a webserver as I do.

Cheers.

Baz.
-- 
Barrie J. Bremner		OpenPGP public key ID: 5164F553
baz [at] barriebremner.com	http://barriebremner.com/


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