Re: Remote Administration Problem

From: Matt Coe, CCNA (webmaster_at_jargonccna.cjb.net)
Date: 03/26/04

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    Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:15:36 -0400
To: Hamed Abangar <h_abangar@yahoo.com>

    Hamed Abangar wrote:

    >Dear members
    >
    >I'm new to this list and also I'm new to FreeBSD environment .I'm network administrator in an isp.Recently i have changed our Internet servers from Linux to freebsd ( cache servers , dns servers , firewall , mail servers) . Every things works well , but i have a problem.I can't control my servers remotely.I have activated SSH and telnet but i can't login to my server with root account from my home or every other where. Each time i want to check my servers , i must go to my server's room and this is not good for a network administrator , i didn't have this problem with Linux.
    >
    Out of the box, FreeBSD disallows remote root logins. Instead, you can
    make a separate user part of the "wheel" group and su into root from
    there. I wouldn't necessarily advise doing all of your activity as the
    wheel'd user, though I haven't been playing with my FreeBSD machines on
    a sufficiently frequent basis to be able to say, one way or the other,
    if that would definitely cause problems. 

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