From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 12:24:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awww.jeah.net (awww.jeah.net [216.111.239.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA6A37B422 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 12:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jslivko@jeah.net) Received: from localhost (jslivko@localhost) by awww.jeah.net (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f42JNvN31252; Wed, 2 May 2001 14:23:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jslivko@jeah.net) Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 14:23:56 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: John Congdon Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Disabling The Root Account In-Reply-To: <71E79DA61328D311B4D10020AFF78E4218DBEE@bdc.orlando.tradeweb.net> Message-ID: <20010502142336.I30799-100000@awww.jeah.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And how would you go about doing system administration tasks if you did this? -- Jonathan M. Slivko ----------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan M. Slivko | e-mail: jslivko@jeah.net Sys. Admin, DataSyrgeINET | http://www.datasyrge.net Tech. Support, SimpHost | http://www.simphost.com IRC Oper, AsylumNet IRC | http://www.asylum-net.org ---------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org On Wed, 2 May 2001, John Congdon wrote: > I am considering changing root's shell to /bin/false or the like. > And doing everything via sudo. > > Does anyone have any insight into this? Is it not advisable to do this? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message