Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)

[Steve Willer <willer@interlog.com>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:

> > In that case you wouldn't be able to 'su' to the static root shell; and 
> > you wouldn't be able to log in on the console. 
> yes, the console poses a problem, but you don't need su to the static root
> shell - you can use ssh both locally and from the outside.

In this situation, then, you would be effectively relying on a non-free
(and non-us) package as the standard solution to the remote admin problem.

And you can't run ssh locally because it's dynlinked.