Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:46:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Traditional UN*X conventions (Or: Why not to login as root?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010150739480.59649-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com>
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Lately I find myself pondering why or why not one is supposed to leave the root account alone altogether, instead su(do)ing as necessary to perform various tasks. Is there a series of texts out there that states this and other traditional measures taken (perhaps with a historical or logically documented process in regards to tracking break-ins)? ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <kris@nospam.catonic.net> | ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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