Configuring Telnet & FTP to login as root (Linux)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL3 / RHEL4 Enabling Telnet and FTP Services Linux is configured to run the Telnet and FTP server, but by default, these services are not enabled. To enable the telnet service, login to the server as the root user account and run the following commands: # chkconfig telnet on # service xinetd reload Reloading configuration: [ OK ] Starting with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 release (and in CentOS Enterprise Linux), the FTP server (wu-ftpd) is no longer available with xinetd . It has been replaced with vsftp and can be started from /etc/init.d/vsftpd as in the following: # /etc/init.d/vsftpd start Starting vsftpd for vsftpd: [ OK ] If you want the vsftpd service to start and stop when recycling (rebooting) the machine, you can create the following symbolic links: # ln -s /etc/init.d/vsftpd /etc/rc3.d/S56vsftpd # ln -s /etc/...