On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:13:04PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You should never be too lazy to log in as a user and su to root. > > su to root: 8 character password. > ssh directly as root: 1024 bit RSA key. > > Which one is easiest to crack?
I login as a user by RSA-authentification and then su to root. > I don't allow telnet logins as root, but I'm quite happy to allow RSA > authenticated root logins with SSH. Great, and if somebody compromises the machine where the private key for root is stored... Phil
