On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, jay wrote:
|I think I've known a few admins, who have their servers colo'd in some high
|bandwidth service provider, while they're managing the software part for
|provinding services such as hosting/appl services etc. from a remote
|location ..that's possible, isn't it ?
You can always telnet/ssh as a regular user and then su to root.
the advantage being if someone were to try and break in.. he'd have to
break two passwords as opposed to only one if root were allowed to telnet
directly.
Kingsly
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