Re: Questions regarding the base system
On 10 Oct 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
osiris>Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> writes:
osiris>
osiris>> On all my systems that I have installed here on campus I later remove the
osiris>> user because the user interferes with NIS or is a security hole since the
osiris>> system should only be accessed in exceptional cases by system
osiris>> administration.
osiris>
osiris>I thought that there were some very good security reasons not to allow
osiris>direct root logins from anywhere other than the console.
This is true for a system having a console. But my units here run
headless. They can only be administered remotely. The ones who are
dedicated to some obscure network task are touched once every few months
and they are on an internal firewalled network.
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