Re: GUI login screen.
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:24:21AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> [Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more
> likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is
> acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.]
>
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:28:38PM +0000, Ken Gilmour said
> > Well i think the best solution to get around this is to setup a normal
> > user account... then edit the /etc/passwd file and set that person
> > with root permissions so as soon as they login theyre automatically
> > made root.
And you now have two possible passwords to gain access to super-user
access, you've doubled the odds of someone gaining root by
brute-force.
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