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Article #20Re: logging on remotely as root
From: Paul Colquhoun
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:45
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:45
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On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:11:50 +0200, Carsten Weber <cweber@physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
|Hello.
|I got my linux server running and set up apache. However, I access the
|server via a client computer. I am not able to log on remotely as
|root. Which files do I have to edit in order to be able to do this?
|I'm running RedHat linux. Thanks for your help. Carsten
It's much safer to keep things that way. Log in as a normal user,
then use 'su -' to become root. If at all possible, install SSH
and use that instead of telnet to login remotely.
Much better sucurity.
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