topic Re: Enable telneting and ftp for root on RH3 in Operating System - Linux

Enable telneting and ftp for root on RH3

Basso_1 — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:41:03 GMT

hi. How can i enable telnet and ftp for the root? I can telnet from windows pc using any other users then root.
How to login using root?
Thanks for any help

Re: Enable telneting and ftp for root on RH3

Sergejs Svitnevs — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:06:57 GMT

for root login via telnet simply edit the file /etc/securetty and add the following to the end of the file:

pts/0
pts/1

This will allow up to 2 telnet sessions to the server as root.

for root login via ftp simply remove "root" line from /etc/vsftpd.ftpusers.

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: Enable telneting and ftp for root on RH3

dirk dierickx — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:21:10 GMT

telnet is probably not installed and it will not be turned on by xinetd. and for good reasons!
telnet is insecure, if you use it for root access it's even worse. use ssh and scp, and try to avoid usage of the root account by implementing sudo.

Re: Enable telneting and ftp for root on RH3

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:00:26 GMT

Shalom Basso,

Two horrible ideas. openssh replaces both packages and is secure.

FTP is controlled by /etc/vsftpd.conf or /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Telnet is fixed thus:

cd /etc/xinetd.d

There is a file for telnet

vi it.

change disable=yes to disable=no

save

service xinetd restart
service vsftpd restart

Done.

Good Luck.

SEP