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Hi,

I've just installed Debian GNU/Linux. On the last machine I installed it on
I could log in as root over telnet, but on this machine I cant!

I can log in as any other user, but not as root. How do I solve this
problem?

Thanks,
Richard Barraclough

This is not allowed, because it's not secure. Use ssh for login as root.

|> I've just installed Debian GNU/Linux. On the last machine I installed it on
|> I could log in as root over telnet, but on this machine I cant!
|
|> I can log in as any other user, but not as root. How do I solve this
|> problem?
|
| This is not allowed, because it's not secure. Use ssh for login as root.

...but if you are crazy/desperate enough, have a look at /etc/securetty

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Robert Barraclough schrieb:

Quote:> Hi,

> I've just installed Debian GNU/Linux. On the last machine I installed it
> on I could log in as root over telnet, but on this machine I cant!

> I can log in as any other user, but not as root. How do I solve this
> problem?

Use ssh, telnet transfers passwords unencrypted, root access is disabled.

Of course you can also log in as a normal user and then use "su" to switch
to root.

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Hi Robert,

Quote:* Robert Barraclough writes:
> I've just installed Debian GNU/Linux. On the last machine I installed it on
> I could log in as root over telnet, but on this machine I cant!

although telnet is quite unsecure and you really should use ssh to
login as root, you could login as some non-root user on your machine
and than 'su -' to root.

  Benedikt

where you password can be sniffed as well.

disable telnet inbound. (its still useful as a tool outbound to test
networks, ie telnet to port 25/TCP on a box to manually test the SMTP
server.) use ssh exclusively.