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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2001 02:03:46 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <15330.21346.730463.163683@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <007e01c1636e$97016d10$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> types:
> Mike writes:
> > I'd still recommend not allowing root to log
> > in remotely.
> If there weren't so many blasted things that have to be done as root, I'd agree.
> But almost everything affecting the system requires root, it seems.

You should log in as yourself, and su to root. That provides a better
audit trail than logging in as root.

> > The thing that pops immediately to mind is
> > the number of security rings.
> The implemented architecture already had eight rings; how many did they
> originally want?

I thought they only implemented four, and wanted sixteen. Possibly
they went from four to eight, and decided that was enough.

	<mike
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
Q: How do you make the gods laugh?		A: Tell them your plans.

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