On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:39:07AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Why would anyone need root login over ssh?  I don't allow it on my
> server and it has never caused me any problems.  Su to root works
> perfectly well and avoids the security risk, so I don't understand
> this thread.

Remote backups. Quite easy to setup an SSH key which only runs rsync.

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Regards,
Olav

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