DISCONNECTING REMOTE TELNET USER

Killing the user session on the Unix server is as simple as killing the PPID. If you list all logged in uses with `who -T` you will see the process ID you need to kill (column 8). Then just do a 'kill -9 process_ID'. If you want to automate this to kill all telnetted users you can use a short script -
for PID in `ps -ef|grep "in.telnetd"|awk '{print $2}'
do
kill -9 $PID
done
All users that telnet into the box will have an in.telnetd process.

If you want to login as admin via telnet to w2k I'm not sure - but for Solaris edit /etc/default/login and comment out the line that reads CONSOLE=/dev/console. If this line is present it means root can only log in at the console; otherwise root can login from anywhere.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

You are much safer logging in as yourself, then using "su" to gain admin priviledges. If you want to "log in as root" use "su - root". This way only users with valid accounts who also know the root password can become root. You can also associateroot sessions with specific users. Once a few users know the root password the account becomes anonymous and you don't know who did what. Also, by allowing direct root login you open up remote hacking to a one password attack where the su method requires two. By allowing only a few bad passwords before disconnecting you can significantly reduce your exposure to password breaking attacks.

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