On Being root....

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On zo, 2006-03-05 at 12:41 -0500, Chris Peterman wrote:
> For Servers however...the Duel Account (Normal and Root User) Model is
> better, assuming you disallow Remote Root logins. Why? Because if the
> cracker busts the long cryptic user password, he still has to bust the
> (perhaps) longer, more cryptic Root Password to do more damage. 

This is not the only factor. The reason I prefer sudo on servers is that
it's easy to delegate part of administration privileges to
non-priviledged users. With sudo you can eg grant someone permission to
restart apache without him knowing the root password or being able to do
something else as root.
-- 
Dennis K.
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