I see your point of view and agree...
see you all soon, with new stupid ( ;-) )* questions
Bye
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* "If you ask for a stupid question, you'll be such for few minutes. If you don't ask, you could be stupid forever"
(something like a) Ancient Chinese proverb
At 22.44 08/11/2002 +0100, Mark wrote:
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Gennaro Esposito
- To: Subscribers of Qpopper
- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:34 PM
- Subject: Access blocked for uid below 10?
- ERR[AUTH] Access is blocked for UIDs below 10
- It's clear, for me, what it means (root is, obviusly, UID 0)
- but I'm very surprised 'cause nowhere in the manual nor
- in the FAQ I've seen anythig about this behaviour.
- How can I circunvent/resolve the "problem"?
- TIA
- Dunno who put it there, but it's a good policy. :) I wrote my own version of poppasd once, to do just that: disallowing checking UID < 1000. Below 10 is even mild; I would set the marker much higher (at 1000, for instance, where FreeBSD starts numbering "regular" users).
- Make it a habit of not logging in, remote, as "root" anyway -- whether possible or not. I have mail for "root" be copied to a regular user, which I check from a remote site. But never "root" directly. Just as I disabled root-login for SSHD. I telnet in over the secure SSH shell, and then su to root from there. Same goes for FTP: never FTP as root.
- My advice? Do not try and circumvent these measures; they are sane and installed for a good reason. Make those reasons your own.
- Regards,
- - Mark
- System Administrator Asarian-host.org
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