Re: [tlug] remote

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Michael Doughty wrote:
> 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.  

And implying, also, that you stay as far away from OpenSSH as possible... ;)


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Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.