Remote Administration Problem

[Matt Coe, CCNA]

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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Matt Coe, CCNA
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