telnet as root

[peterve]

I'm running Redhat Linux 7.1,
after setting up the box, I can't logon as root during a telnet session
(from a remote machine to the Linux server)

The xidentd daemon is running, allowing telnet
(I can telnet using another user so..)

How can I allow root to logon during telnet ?
Where do I have to restrict access for users ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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[mcvdmvs]

hosts.allow and hosts.deny and ipchains has to be configured correctly.

U want to have acces from a remote machine, make sure u allow the ip of that machine to have access to the server. mcvdmvs
-- "It never hurts to help" -- Eek the Cat

 

[peterve]

I can access the server from any machine, with all users, but not with user 'root'...

I know ssh is much safer, but I still want to know how I can set these rights...

by the way : I'm using xidentd... is this still using hosts.allow and hosts.deny ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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[x3ja]

A lot of Linux distros disable remote root login (well, i know Debian certainly does). So if you need to telnet in - do so as a normal user and type "su -" and, as prompted, enter your root password and this should work.

To be honest I don't know how your enable/disable remote root logins, but it is far securer to login as a normal user and change. Having said that - really don't use telnet when you're doing anything with root - people can see your plain text password with a little effort. SSH is simple & there are clients for all OSs so use it

Alex

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

As you obviously realise it is <NOT> a good idea to allow telnet as root and for that reason direct root logon is not configured. You can logon as an ordinary user and 'su', however which is one way around it.

If you really want to do it you have to get around p.a.m. security and I believe you need to add the following to /etc/securetty :

pts/0
pts/1

If you wanted to allow the remote 'r' series commands also add :

rexec
rsh
rlogin

I strongly suggest, however, that you use openSSH instead.

RGds