Re: securing debian

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

   > > > You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for
   > > > all your root access.  If you do that, then you can change the
   > > > encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow
   > > > passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root.
   > > > 

   Is this really a good thing? ...  What happens when you need to add a
   command to sudo, or when you need to come up in maintenance mode?

Like I say, I changed it back later, for similar reasons, but it's
definitely an option, if you're really paranoid.


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