How to enable root login from telnet/rlogin....

[colinp]

Have a server running Mandrake 6.0. I want to be able to rlogin or telnet in as root.
I have created a .rhosts file with the remote IP address in.
In Solaris you would edit the /etc/default/login file and comment out the line CONSOLE=/dev/console. This would enable the remote root login.....
How do you do this under Linux ????

cheers,

Col.

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[geekd]

You most certainly DO NOT want to log in vi telnet as root.

what you want to do is get ssh installed (version 1.x , not version 2) on the server and the machines you will be logging in from (there are several windows clients, too)

Telnet sends passwords and EVERYTHING YOU TYPE over the internet in plain text. it is a simple thing to use a program and grab all this info, including your root password.

ssh (Secure SHell) encrypts everything /before/ sneding it and then de-crypts it at the other end.

all the commands you can do with rsh you can do with ssh, like rcp (scp)

and the 1.x version is still open source. the closed source version 2 has yet to be as widley used, and they are not compatible.

-geekd

[colinp]

Hi Geekd,

not seen you post in a while over at HWC....
Thanks for the advice.... I am not too bothered about security as the server is on our site Lan behind firewalls. Access would purely be intra-site. I'll look into ssh though, sounds good.

cheers,

Col.

p.s. How are the Chow's ????

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[geekd]

Hey collin.

I have very little time these days for recreational browsing.. :-(

on the upside, I got a great new job, great pay, writing Perl for Linux-based web servers.

It's at this job that I learned about ssh. I do alot of remote administration to machines all over the place, and ssh makes everything secure.

say hey to everyone..

-geekd