| 1 |
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 04:35, William Kenworthy wrote: |
| 2 |
> I dont see ssh as being a good solution in this case. On a firewalled |
| 3 |
> single user machine, the complexity of going through ssh (which seems to |
| 4 |
> have a patchy history as regards security itself) seems like it might be |
| 5 |
> more of a risk (i.e., misconfiguration, security holes etc) as well as |
| 6 |
> the inconvenience of an unwieldy command line compared to the |
| 7 |
> alternative - simplicity. |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
personally i find that "su" works, (without the - switch), so sudo su |
| 10 |
gives me a root shell, which i can normally run X stuff from. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
Cheers, |
| 13 |
Colin Morey |
Archives