On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Adam Johnson wrote:

> I'm very new to BSD and just set up a NetBSD NAT "box" for my cable
> connection.  I'm trying to learn more about accessing the machine remotely
> but can't find much info on NetBSD's site.  So far, I've tried allowing
> telnetd to boot up in the inetd.conf file, but when trying to log
on
> remotely I get the message that "root login refused on this terminal".
>
> Am I going about this the wrong way?  Is telnet the best way to access this
> machine?  Where can I get information concerning these questions?  Any help
> is much appreciated!!!!!!!!

That's a security feature to keep people from brute force attacking the
root password.  Create a standard user account, put it in group "wheel",
then telnet in using that account.  From there, you use "su" to become
root.