Re: Telnet/pop3 Problem

[Richard Andrews <andrews postoffice utas edu au>]

Usually you can only log in as root from the local console. This is done for
obvious security reasons. There _is_ a way to change this behaviour but I can't
remember which files you have to alter. Your best place to start is the manual
page login, getty and agetty as these are the programs which handle logins.
  I think that /etc/securetty is the file you want. Need to have the tty that 
the login is arriving on mentioned here.

Rich

>I'm trying to telnet to my linux box and login as root. Doing the same trying 
>to
>read the mail for root.
>Is there some "extra" security arount the root account that prevents you loggi
>ng
>in remotely and if
>so, how do I disable it (in a very very secure fashion)?
>
>TIA.
>
>Mark W.