Re: Telnet/pop3 Problem

[adm ipat com (Alan Mead)]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:48:36 +0100, Mark_Wilkinson spe sony com wrote:

>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 logging
>in remotely and if
>so, how do I disable it (in a very very secure fashion)?

Yes, logon as yourself and su to root.  To read email, either logon to
the console or I think 'su - root' will allow you to read root mail.
I don't know if it's wise, but I get around this by setting up an
alias in /etc/aliases so that root's email (as well as some other
keywords like slert and I don't know what else) comes to me.

I happen to be wrestling with qpopper right now and I can tell you
that you would need to edit a header (config.h?) and recompile to
allow root access.  Feel like hacking?  I wouldn't for security
reasons.

-Alan