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From: Francisco Olarte Sanz <folarte@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Opinion: ssh to root vs sudo
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:45:12
Message-Id: 200610120942.00249.folarte@peoplecall.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Opinion: ssh to root vs sudo by Peter Abrahamsen
1 On Thursday 12 October 2006 04:01, Peter Abrahamsen wrote:
2
3 > Which is a better idea, allowing key-only root access, or ssh'ing in
4 > as myself and running su/sudo/whatever? Either way, I'll set up
5 > iptables so that connection attempts from anywhere other than my
6 > office are -j DROP'ed.
7
8 Why don't you allow key-only ssh-access as yourself and then su/sudo ? I
9 normally do it this way, as I don't want to be logged in as root all the
10 time, as when I have administration to do I need to read log files and move
11 around, and this avoids stupid typos and the like.
12
13 F.O.S.
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Re: [gentoo-server] Opinion: ssh to root vs sudo Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@××××××××.net>