From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 7:23:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAD637B417 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ftp.reportlab.co.uk ([194.159.4.137] helo=jessikat.demon.co.uk) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16eHY9-000CTw-0W for questions@freeBSD.ORG; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:23:53 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:22:42 +0000 To: questions@freeBSD.ORG From: Robin Becker Subject: Re: login as root from specified domain References: <20020222133047.A58163@nigsch.com> In-Reply-To: <20020222133047.A58163@nigsch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <8fY3TEtAaFySF58ErPUfo9YLW3> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20020222133047.A58163@nigsch.com>, Florian Nigsch writes >While loggin in as root is not normally a good idea, see > >login.access(5) fro some hints. > >make sure that PermitRootLogin is NOT no in sshd.conf > >for FTP: root must not be in the ftpusers file. > >why not use su(1) and ssh/sftp/scp? > >flo ..... Normally I use ssh+su for handomatic stuff, but I would like to use gvim on my winbox to edit files directly on the server. It understands some protocols like ftp, but I'm not sure whether gvim understands scp. Perhaps I should investigate. -- Robin Becker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message