Re: Root sending messages to users
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On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
>>> Well, it is a one-user box,
>> No it's not. Unix hasn't just had "meat" users in 30 years. If you
>> don't believe me, cat her box's /etc/passwd.
>>
>
> I meant, the only human user.
>
>>> but she is that user! When I SSH in I SSH in as her.
>> That's horrible security practice. Add an account for yourself, and
>> ssh in under it.
>>
>
> I only SSH in from the LAN for a few seconds time ever. I update her
> system with apt-get, I copy over a file, stuff like that. There is no
> NAT on the router, so SSH is not forwarded in from outside.
Even if, in this instance, there's no "harm" (she's you're wife,
after all), it's still Bad Practice, and that makes for Bad Habits.
In 15 seconds you can create user "dotan" on that machine, and log
in as it, then sudo or su to do whatever you need to do.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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