Alexander Boström wrote:
Lets settle for a default configuration with a good balance between
usability and security. Like perhaps disabling root login or something.
Taking over a user account is really almost as bad as root access. The
typical desktop user is thoroughly screwed regardless.
I agree that compromising a user account is still bad. But not nearly as
bad as root access (if one must choose), but if root access through ssh
is disabled by default, attack scripts would have to *guess* a user to
bruteforce and can't rely on bruteforcing "root" who exists on every
*nix system. So this would allow immediate ssh access to admins (ssh as
user and su -) to newly installed machines. Admin is free to remotely
log in, install public keys and reconfigure sshd as he sees fit, but
he's allowed to do it from his administrative workstation instead of the
physical machine console. This makes a lot of sense in my world.
/Thomas
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