chnaging telnet password

Does anybody know how to change the unix telnet password, i want it to be the same as the regular login.

Cheers Peeps

Andy

ther is no telnet pwd in unix.
telnet try to connect a remote sys and start a login shell.
if pwd is incorrect, change it on remote using 'passwd'.
what about google for 'unix man telnet passwd' ?

Thanks,

Ive setup the telnet stuff and i can establish connection but it wont let me log in, the username prompt appears and i proceed to try and log in as root but it says the password is wrong.

Does anybody know what problem could be?

Cheers

Andy

Q1: before post 1, did you successfully logged in into that sys AS
user ROOT ?
Q2: did you see on the terminal error mssg ?
Q3: what EXACTLY did you after post 1?

if A1 is no, you never had access AS root, no chance
else if A2 is no, the pwd is changed and you are misspelling it
else if A2 is yes, the pwd is NOT changed, use the old one
else call your sys admin (and look for an unix stage).

Q4 which kind of unix ist that OS ?

Hi it is sunOS

andy, if you will help, answer the questions.
try also to be precise: sunOS until 1996 was BSD now SVR4
help me to help you, or let it be.

Hi,
it is sunOS 5.6,

i have had access as root by logging onto the mahine - never had access through telnet though.

i can login into the machine normally fine and dandy, its just i have trouble when i try to go through telnet it says that 'login incorrect' etc etc

Cheers

a little closer.
nota sunOS 5.6 is called Solaris 2.6
do:
grep -l CONSOLE /etc/default/login
if CONSOLE is set to some /dev/xyz, root logins are allowed only
from the physical /dev/xyz
read /etc/default/login, well documented.
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nota: this is a security issue and hole
i prefer 'telnet' as normal user and 'su' or 'sudo' to root

It's common for Unix machines to disallow root logins via telnet. This is to encourage you to use something more secure for your connection - something that doesn't transmit the root password over the network in an unencrypted format.

If you dig around a bit you should be able to find something that turns that behaviour off. I wouldn't recommend it though.

Hope that helps

Steve

Would it be possible to work, if i was to add a new user and password, specifically designed for telneting.

Thanks

Andy

Yes, absolutely.

The point is that if you need to log in as root to perform specific admin tasks, then you shouldn't use telnet - you need something more secure. By all means create another user (with fewer permissions than root) and use that instead.

Steve