| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:09:43 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 12:37:50PM -0400, Paul wrote: > You are free to do what you wish. But does everything you wish to do > require root access? If you log in as root, you will never know the > difference. That means you will be operating with more power and less > awareness. That itself is negative. All of you are giving Christophe far too little credit. His question was never "is it still inappropriate to just always login as root", the answer to which is obviously "of course!". His question was, "when I need to be root on a remote machine, is it truly only appropriate to login as myself and su", the answer to which is "logging in as root using PKI is more secure than logging in as yourself and issuing a su(1)". -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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