Re: shared root account

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Juha Jäykkä <juolja@utu.fi> writes:

>   Any other ideas? Or is it really safe to allow root logins to sshd?
> It is just an old rule of thumb that root must never log on over the
> wire but that may be old news from times of telnet - never had any
> need of root logins over the wire until perhaps now.

The traditional reason for disallowing root logins has nothing to do
with security; the reason is to give (maybe) more accountability
because a real user id is logged along with the actions that root
does.