Re: [Sheflug] telnet as root?

[Ruth Gunstone <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <01101319554704.00491 [at] lapland>
          Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> > What's the proper way to do this? Should I be able to telnet in as root?
> 
> You can set it up to do so, but I'd advise against it - bad habit.

O.k.!

> 
> You can log in as 'ruthie', and then do a 'su -' which will ask you for 
> root's password: get it right, and bingo - you're root.

Bingo indeed - works a treat - ta!

> You can then get to  /var/www and get rid of all that riscos rubbish :P

:-/

> 
> Also, be aware that if you were running on a network that was publically 
> accessible, telnet wouldn't be a good idea

at the moment it's not - I'm hoping to acquire an old 486 on which I can
install smoothwall to protect me from the 'big-bad-world' :-)

> - installing 'sshd' is a better  idea, and works just like telnet, except
> you type 'ssh' instead of 'telnet' :)

Except I would need a ssh client(?) for my RISCOS machine, which atm doesn't
exist (AFAIK), and is probably very unlikely to appear :-(

Thanks again, everyone, for the help :-)

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Ruth Gunstone          (ruth at bolsterstone dot demon dot co dot uk)

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