On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:01:36 -0500 John Hinton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 1:55 PM, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > > On 30 Nov 2011, at 18:51, Les Mikesell<[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Ssh is mostly about being able to log in. > > I've always adopted the policy of disabling root logins, making > > admins use a separate account with public/private key > > authentication and then requiring them to use su to elevate > > privileges. > > > > Has the advantage that your logs will tell you who logged in and > > performed an action rather than the vague 'root'. > > > > Ben > > > How would you automate daily logins from another server to do > something like rsync the entire /etc directory to a backup system? > You shouldn't do that *from* another server, you should do that *to* another server. Plus: if there is a reason for logging in remotely with root, you're doing something wrong 99.999% of the time. Rui _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
