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I have linux loaded. It's working. I telnet to the box from a remote system. The problem is: I would like to config things from the remote system. I try to login as root. But it keeps telling me login incorrect...... I walk right over to the system and login as the root no problem.
I have also setup a user from linuxconf and gave him superuser right but I can not change anything on the box as him or do anything remotely.
I was told linux was the best os to use for DNS. I have lots of exper. with windows networks and I must say I'm getting a bad taste so far for linux.
Logging in remotely as root is a security risk and by default it is disabled. Root may only log in from local terminals. The file /etc/securetty list the safe places from where root may log in to the system.
WARNING: U can allow root to log in remotely but u are strongly recommended not to.
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