On 31 Jul 2002 22:45:00 +0800 "Crispin Wellington" <crispin@aeonline.net> wrote: > Why is it a bad idea? Any compromise of ssh will give the user root > anyway because it runs at user level root. Ah, you appear to have missed the Privleged Seperation fiasco recently. There are ways now for sshd not to run as root. -- Jamin W. Collins