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Re: [PLUG] log as root or not ?
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> Then I don't remember the passwords (and would prefer not to have to)
> so su from the normal user to root seems inconvenient.
Good security is seldom convenient.
Allowing access to your root account through any means other than a
good password stored in your head is extremely undesirable.
I never even ssh directly as root: my sshd has a very short list of
usernames allowed to ssh in, and 'root' ain't one of them. And I stopped
using telnet years ago.
Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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