On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:06:55AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > okay, got it. But I still fail to see the advantages of allowing > multiple people access to the same account like this. Obviously its > vastly easier to set up, but it seems like its asking for > trouble. Logs will say user foo, logged in at 12:34 and did this, but > which of any number of people was behind that user foo login? > That is a good point. I was not disputing that. I was simply correcting your misstatement about the key compromise. Incidentally what you say is the same problem that is faced when a group of admins share a root password. Something like sudo is useful there. In any event, people should have their own accounts. Shared accounts are very out of style now. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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