How to Enable Remote Root Telnet Login in Solaris Perhaps you have freshly installed Solaris 8 or 9 on your older

Solaris 7 system and you want to access the machine remotely. It seems Solaris doesn't, by defau lt, install an SSH server for secure login, so you must use telnet. But what if you want to use telnet remotely as root? It's a bad idea to login remotely, but let's assume security is not the problem. Whenever you login, the system cuts yo u off. This is because Solaris, by default, does not permit remote root login. T his is how you enable it. First, the file you need to modify is probably set to mode 444 (universal read). So let us fix that: # chmod 644 /etc/default/login Now edit /etc/default/login with your editor (probably vi). Navigate to the line which reads # If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device. # Comment this line out to allow remote login by root. # CONSOLE=/dev/console Comment out the line "CONSOLE" by adding a "#" to it, so it looks like # If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device. # Comment this line out to allow remote login by root. # #CONSOLE=/dev/console That's it! Save the file and you're ready to roll.