On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > For having two root accounts? Yes. Any thing you imagine can happen now. > Security has ceased to exist unless same persons operates both accounts. Even > in that case, only one root account is sufficient.
Actually, having an alternate account with uid/gid 0 could be useful, and improve security - if done correctly. Basically, any administrative tasks and only administrative tasks that actually require root access should be done as this other user. Now, you should never use the root account. That way, you can place an alarm on root logins, so if anyone tries to login as root, you know that there's an attack in progress. -- "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
