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Re: Remote Access of Root
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:56:26PM +0300, Richard Fiedler wrote:
> I have Mandrake 7.1 up and running and for maintenance purposes I want to
> log on remotely as root for telnet and ftp from another system.
>
> Right now this seems to be defeated by the system. Can I change this?
To allow root to log in from everywhere:
mv /etc/securetty /etc/securetty-disabled
To allow root to log in with ftp:
perl -ni -e 'print unless $_ =~ /^root$/' /etc/ftpusers
Neither is recommended.
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