On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:08:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue, 10 May 2022 07:50:18 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Why the aversion to doing things as root? Why not just run your scripts > > as root? This is exactly the sort of thing that is reserved to root for > > reasons of security. > > That complicates unlocking partitions remotely because, even if you > can log in as root, you normally can't log in remotely as root.
But you *can* typically sudo on the remote system, which is what is actually being suggested here. I think. (Also, you'd be surprised how many systems *do* allow remote root logins, either from a quasi-trusted set of source IPs, or using key auth only, or both.)
