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Re: [tlug] remote



On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:31:16 +0900, Matt Doughty wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 08:44:00PM +0900, hatsuhiro wrote:
> > How can we login a remote server as a superuser from a client? Is it
> > sufficiently powerful to control a remote machine by means of "rlogin" as if
> > we were using it directly? Do we have any other way?
> > 
> 
> For the love of god no!!! Shutdown rlogin,telnet,rsh etc. They are evil!!!
> 
> Install ssh and have atleast some semblance of security. Also probably best
> to login as one account, and su to root.

Implying, of course, that you should disable remote root login.  

Michael


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