Jarrod Major wrote: >On Monday 21 November 2005 3:57 pm, Robert Lewko wrote: > > >>On November 21, 2005 01:05 pm, Kin C Wong wrote: >> >> >>>Just discovered ssh last week. It is really cool. As I am not that >>>comfortable using command line, I would like to run KDE. I was told >>>that you could use the following command to do that: >>> >>>ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>Most times the distro will not let root connect to the host. Try looking >>at the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and the entry PermitRootLogin. Set this >>to 'yes' and then: >> >>killall -HUP sshd >> >> > >Hey Rob, I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. Advising Kin to turn on >PermitRootLogin is not a good idea. > >Kin, you can su to Root once you have logged in via a permitted user. Allowing >root login via SSH is frowned upon as a security risk. If you are going to do >this, then I would suggest you look at certificate based authentication >instead of username/password authentication. > >Jarrod > > Thanks Jarrod -- I just read that on one of my searches, that is much wiser and a whole lot safer.
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