Subject: Re: PermitRootLogin in SSHd (WAS: Re: Telnet logins)
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/22/2001 09:39:08
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Curt Sampson wrote:

: > "login 'root' succeeded from server21.whatever.com" ...and that correlated
: > in time with a catastrophic failure of a system service?  Do you want to
: > go digging through log files because people are cascade sshing from
: > machine to machine on your network?
:
: The handy thing about permitting direct root logins is that you can
: sdist and rsync system files (e.g., /usr/local upgrade) to a whole bunch
: of other machines easily. Is there any way to do this without direct
: root logins?

I think you just won that $5 sudo challenge.  8-)

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