On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: > > > But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? > > ssh? su? In general, there's no really good reason to log in as root > directly other than on the console.
Theres lots of excellent reasons to want to do it though. Eg. I want to copy a file to a dozen other Linux boxes and now I have to use scp which is a lot slower than rcp. Recently I had to move 20GB's of data from one machine to another - in the past, I'd have used rsh, dump & restore. Had to use ssh which encrypted everything and ran really really slow. I was not impressed when I found out that the powers that be behind Debian had crippled this very usefull feature. There are worse security holes in systems and I don't think that .rhosts in the /root directroy is one of them. Gordon
