Am 2006-12-15 00:56:28, schrieb Jacques Normand: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:45:40AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > I've often seen this touted as a good security measure and I've > > always wondered why. I can think of a few possibilities, but I > > really don't know. Could someone please explain it to me? > > Because, to login from outside you will need to guess a valid username > and the corresponding password. After that the root password will have > to be guessed locally which would leave a fat trace in the logs. In > addition, most of the bots around try to guess the root password and do > not spend a lot of time for normal accounts.
Passwords long as a rat-queue are realy secure...
I have full root access to all of my (own) 160 machines
and the tapeworm-passwords gives much brainfood...
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
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