[Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root

[Mark Woods]

Chris Shaw wrote:

>>If you really want to be able to telnet in as root, locate
>>telnetd.conf or somesuch and it should be in there somewhere
>>as a yes/no.  (It is for ssh anyway..)
>>    
>>
>
>No, not under any distro I'm familiar with... It's under /etc/securetty...
>You add the tty of the device you want to allow root access to, like
>pts/0... DON'T DO THIS THOUGH, unless you don't care that your root password
>will be sent PLAINTEXT over the internet...
>
>  
>
He may not be telneting to it across the internet.  He may only be doing 
it from his local network.

That being said, I like almost everyone else, recommend ssh *and* su, 
though I'm guilty of logging in as root across the internet with ssh.

-Mark