On 29/06/00 11:56 +0530, Robin Chatterjee spewed into the LI bitstream:

>however the file is /etc/securetty and using su is as bad as telnetting as root
>if there is a packet sniffer on your network.

use ssh to connect to remote boxen and _then_ su as root.

ssh using your rsa key - not login/pass.

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I never soiled with such a deed.
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