-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> 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. > Besides.. I have a similar setup on my mother's machine, where i want my own .vimrc etc.. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net -> #hbh #admins richohealey irc.freenode.org -> #hbh #debian PythonNinja -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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