Re: F21 System Wide Change: The securetty file is empty by default

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 04/14/2014 08:57 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
But disabling it has no useful purpose, you are just going to make
another account all powerful to compensate, either by giving sudo powers
or other similar mechanism, what you loose is the ability to properly
recover a system.

However, one benefit to disabling root is that it removes that as a potential brute forcing attack. Even if you have another account that is just as powerful, it still requires the attacker to find the username as well as the password. But this is getting further off-topic...

--
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct





[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux