Allowing remote root login

Jared Watkins jared at watkins.net
Mon Oct 13 16:23:56 EDT 2003


Dan Coutu wrote:

>Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet logins
>to root from the LAN. I had thought that an entry in
>  
>
What about using sssh?  If you can then simply enable root logins in 
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Using telnet is a bad idea...  it continues a bad habit.  SSH with 
passwords is good... with keys is better.

Jared




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