Summary:

This article describe the details for letting root login ftp and telnet server.

Details:

1.  let root login on ftp server under linux

usually, the super user 'root' is not allowed to login remotely, it is for the security issue,but you can change this condition by modifying a file.

a. comment the root item in the file '/etc/vsftpd/ftpusers'

b. comment the root item in the file '/etc/vsftpd/user_list'

2. modify the default directory for the ftp

first of all , we should delete the user 'ftp' and then, we add the new user 'ftp', we assume that the home directory of the user is at '/mnt/qiutian/ftp' there needs some more thing to do for letting anonymous user login, and so we should change the right of the directory '/mnt/qiutian/ftp'. 3. let super user root login the telnetd server

since it is not a safe application, telnet doesn't let root login the linux host. If you want to change the situation, pls do like this:

(1) or (2) edit the file '/etc/securetty', add some lines below: