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I'm new here and to Linux, so if this has been answered before, forgive me.

I'm determined to use Linux for a couple of things at the office.  I now
have our corporate web site running on Apache :-) and it works great.  I'm
working on a Samba server now and it's working OK.  Here's my question.  I'm
usually at home when I come across something great on the web and want to
try it on my Linux PC at work.  I'm connected via a VPN to work, so I can
Telnet to my linux PC, but can't log in as Root.  Root works great locally
and any other username works great remotely, but I want to log in as root
remotely.  I know that this is generally a bad idea, but I want to have the
same control I have locally remotely.  What's keeping Root from logging in
remotely?  The only error I get is "Login Incorrect."

Thanks in advance for any advice.

PS, in this particular instance, I want to log in as Root in order to
install software.

-Adrian Rogers

Quote:> Hi group,

> I'm new here and to Linux, so if this has been answered before, forgive
me.

> I'm determined to use Linux for a couple of things at the office.  I now
> have our corporate web site running on Apache :-) and it works great.  I'm
> working on a Samba server now and it's working OK.  Here's my question.
I'm
> usually at home when I come across something great on the web and want to
> try it on my Linux PC at work.  I'm connected via a VPN to work, so I can
> Telnet to my linux PC, but can't log in as Root.  Root works great locally
> and any other username works great remotely, but I want to log in as root
> remotely.  I know that this is generally a bad idea, but I want to have
the
> same control I have locally remotely.  What's keeping Root from logging in
> remotely?  The only error I get is "Login Incorrect."

<snip>

Don't do that.  Log in as a regular user & su to root.

#su -

Enter root's password & then you can do anything you want to do.

VPN or no VPN, use SSH - not telnet.  If you're using a recent distro, SSH
should be enabled.  Use it.  Get an SSH client.

Good luck.

To the OP: Telnet is an insecure protocol. Userid and password values are
passed across the network in cleartext making it possible for anyone
sniffing the network to log in to a telnet-enabled system. Although the
root user is typically forbidden telnet login (to ensure the safety of the
root password), blackhole has given you a workaround. Be aware: blackhole's
workaround exposes the root login and password just as badly as if root
logged in directly.

If you _must_ have root log in, have root use a secure technology like ssh.
If this is not possible, and you have a secure network (that's your call,
not ours), you can either use blackhole's suggestion (telnet as user, su to
root) or you can enable root access to telnet (by editing the
/etc/securetty file to include one or more ptys).

Quote:>VPN or no VPN, use SSH - not telnet.  If you're using a recent distro, SSH
>should be enabled.  Use it.  Get an SSH client.

Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)

The previous post was good advice altogether imo.

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Thanks!
Dave

So what - did you miss the entire section of my post that said to use SSH
instead of telnet???

SSH to the box as a regular user.  Once logged in, su to root.  I would
never advocate using telnet for any user account.

My only issue was with your advice wrt telnet.

Quote:>SSH to the box as a regular user.  Once logged in, su to root.  I would
>never advocate using telnet for any user account.

(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)

Putty is a telnet CLIENT - what has that got to do with the OP's question?
For that matter, what the hell has scp got to do with it either as he's
clearly not using SSH.

Jesus - no wonder people * about getting bad information from the net.

JJ