| christophe barbé on Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:41:26 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:09:27PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > 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)". Thanks again gabriel. My english (I am French) is still not perfect and I guess it caused a few miss-understandings here. Christophe > -- > gabriel rosenkoetter > gr@eclipsed.net -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. --English proverb Attachment:
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