LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: Alex Garner <alex@garner.cx>
  To  : Jake Hawkes , linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:59:30 -0700

Re: remote root login in redhat6

At 12:26  22/06/99 +0930, Jake Hawkes wrote:
>cool su -. now everything in /sbin will work :)
>
>but - how do you telnet in as root?

Don't think of root as a user, but a state of mind. You telnet in as
yourself and then (if you need to) you can assume the role of the great
enlightened one or 'root' as it's traditionally known.

You can gain root privileges (uid 0), a programme can run with root
privileges (uid 0) but you must still be yourself.

>there are cases for it - esp. thoase where there is no threat from the
>internet (straight LAN with no gw for example)

Nah. You always log in as yourself, even from the console, or you are not
yourself. Only maybe in runlevel 1 are root logins necessary.

Cheers

Alex!


-- 
Check out the LinuxSA web pages at http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject