-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhbvIUACgkQS9HxQb37XmdhQwCg1CgLTq10cxbHhwqFz1SJwsre Sy0AoKyh7X3D6KHvrECWr7dq4TJf/KMv =eEs/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
