Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:03:39 -0500 From: "John Brooks" <john@day-light.com> To: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Remote server warnings Message-ID: <NHBBKEEMKJDINKDJBJHGCEHNJEAD.john@day-light.com> In-Reply-To: <d8rvmp$egk$1@sea.gmane.org>
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for security reasons, remote root logins are a bad thing. log in as yourself, then su to root. make sure you are a member of the 'wheel' group. -- John Brooks john@day-light.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Arnold > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:51 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Remote server warnings > > > John Brooks wrote: > > might be good to make sure you can actually ssh into the box > > before you move it, > > Thanks for the quick response. > > I've done this - in fact, I'm updateing to 4.10 as we speak via SSH > with my box still local. > > > make sure root logins are not permitted in sshd_config, > > If I do this, how do I do root stuff? Login as myself and use su? > > > make sure the daily reports will be emailed to you > > Ahh, good idea. > > -- > Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) > Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: > http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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