Re: telenet access for root

[Mike Martin <redtuxxx yahoo co uk>]

 --- Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka <mfrd attitudex com> wrote: > It's
not a good approach to use telnet access for root.
> Even using telnet is not a good approach either.
> I suggest you to use ssh instead of telnet.
> 
> But anyway, you can enable root access by adding 
> pts/0
> pts/1
> and so on, as many telnet root sessions you intend to have, in file
> /etc/securetty
> 
> deleting /etc/securetty will allow unlimited root telnet sessions.
> 

If you really, really need to connect via telnet (only reason I can
think of is your using win machine and cant load a ssh client)

you also need to edit /tec/xinetd.d/telnetd and set disabled to no
(there are other useful options there as well.

Also may be an idea to edit hosts.allow to restrict who can access
the box at all

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