-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:24:21AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > [Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more > likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is > acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:28:38PM +0000, Ken Gilmour said > > Well i think the best solution to get around this is to setup a normal > > user account... then edit the /etc/passwd file and set that person > > with root permissions so as soon as they login theyre automatically > > made root.
And you now have two possible passwords to gain access to super-user access, you've doubled the odds of someone gaining root by brute-force. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qGOrUzgNqloQMwcRAluYAJ9xnIprjQyW7bIS3HiMk3MJpFReegCgjRIe kTG9NDPO/nlyfJTAgabY6Ck= =izx3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]