FTPLogin as root

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doubleyou

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Hi to all,

yes i know it is not very good to login as root to change anything but sorry i know what i do. i work my most time with Unixsystems and so i think i know which file is not good to delet. but i have a little problem. i want (it is urgent) to login as root via ftp. how can i setup the root account that i can do that. i don´t want always to use vie terminal

su passwd root
i hate it

it is very important that i can login via ftp as root.
can someone help me ?

would be very nice

thx
jerome
 
Sorry that i have explained it very complicated :-) But my english is not very well. but i try it :-)

Okay i try to explain what i wnat to do.

I Wnat to login as root via an FTP Application to delete somefiles which i have installed directly into the system.

My Server has the IP 192.168.1.3
i want to login via Fetch 4.0 from an other CPU (IP: 192.168.1.2) to delete or modify some files like httpd.conf. These files can only modified wehn i login as "root" but always when i try to login via Fetch

Host: 192.168.1.3
Login: root
Password: *********

When i press connect. An Error will appear that it isn´t possible because "root" has no access.

When i login with an normal account "jerome" than i have acces to my files. But now access to modify or delete some files.

I can delete files and folders vie telnet from the other computer but i must delete every file and the an folder. this could be take a long time when i have an folder with over 200 files.

I want to have access as "root" vie an FTP-Aplication to my Server. This is all :-)

Jerome
 
Hope you're on a secure network buddy, because it is very easy to snif passwords over ftp. Ftp uses clear text passwords.

If Fetch supports SFTP (secure FTP), you are set.

sftp is built in to mac os x. It is secure (you can't steal root's password as you can with ftp), and root login is defaultly enabled.

sftp can be used from the terminal like this:
sftp root@192.168.1.3
it will ask for root's password, then you are set.
the commands are a combination of standard ftp commands and shell commands.

If you really want clear text insecure very bad FTP support for root, well just wait a sec and I'll go look it up ;-P
 
Thx a lot to you all,

now it works great. But sometomes it is easyer than i thought. Damm. But well it is a good forum and in this forum are good persons.

Thanks to you all
Jerome
 
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