root access without password
Ben Boulanger
ben at blackavar.com
Mon Sep 16 13:31:53 EDT 2002
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> So, I recommend using SSH, and creating keys for root, and placing
> them in the root home directory on the systems which need them.
And even more to the point of security, try not to use the root account -
particularly in a place where you're talking about phraseless keys. It
would require some further thinking - using an unprivileged account or
using chroot, but ssh as root is never a good idea. If ID 0 logs in, I
generally want to know about it and get a page/text message somewhere off
the box.
Ben
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