connecting as root

Subject: connecting as root
From: Martin Wilhelm Leidig (mwl@moss.net)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 19:04:09 EST

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Hi, folks!

I'm using netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 on LinuxPPC Q3 (based on Red
Hat 6.something) and want to connect as root from MacOS D-8.1.
"Normal" user log in is fine, but root login seems impossible.

On
<http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/archive/admins/1998/1861.html> I
found that:

>From: jon@colossus.cs.wits.ac.za
>Date: Thu Oct 08 1998 - 01:22:37 EDT
[...]
>to connect as root, comment out the "if uid == 0" part in
>afpd/auth.c
[...]
>On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, jesse reynolds wrote:
[...]
>> Now i'm wondering why it is I can't connect as root...

Is there no other way? I'd like to use some configuration file
or other trick rather than hacking source files and compiling.

Thanks for all!

-Moss-

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