Re: Allowing remote root login seems to be bad. Why? (SUMMARY)

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Edwards <DEdwards@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ron,
>
> I do agree that allowing root access in some cases does make sense.

Are we missing something. Tell me that I don't understand something
here. How can a user doing "su -" and jumping to root after login with
a regular user be different from login with direct root.

Where the first option provide extra barrier for a hacker and second
lets someone do the root dance easily.

Kosala

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