[Asterisk-Users] telnet and Root

[Chris Shaw]

> 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...