Subject: Re: Newbie question: su root?
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 15:32:06 MST
MacSSH (www.macssh.com) works very well with YDL. You can log in as root
too.
Iain
--On Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:22 pm +0200 Åke Svensson
<aakesve@algonet.se> wrote:
>
>
> Stephen Reiach wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, my first comment would have to be not to use telnet. Telnet
>> transfers passwords in plain text. So that root password your sending is
>> going in plain text. Ouch.
>> If possible use SSH [Secure Shell]. It works basically in the same way
>> but is "secure". Most linux distros come with SSH [OpenSSH] as im sure
>> 2.0 does as 2.1 does.
>> Also, it may be that telnet is set up not to allow root to log in via
>> telnet I've had that setting on a telnet server before but im not sure
>> if yours is the same.
>>
>>
> My initial search on Google lead me to the information that it's not
> possible to login as root from a telnet client. Therefore you needed to
> use 'su root' in some cases, for some commands.
>
> Thanks for the tip about SSH I will search for a Mac client!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ake Svensson, Sweden
>
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