AFAIK the disadvantage is when you have multiple people with root
access to a machine - if you log in as root then when checking who
logged in and when using "last" you don't know who the person was,
but a login with your username and then "su -" will log who was doing
root stuff... kinda handy in tracking down what's going on on a
machine administered by a varierty of people...
not sure if there is a problem if it's just you and your own server though...
- dan.
At 1:43 PM +0800 2/5/01, Mark Lo (3) wrote:
> I have been searching the news group about ssh2, people are
>discouraged with root login, I would like to know what is the disadvantage
>of root login. What if, I only use public key to login, and I am pretty
>sure no one can steal my key, then what is the disadvantage about root login
>in this circumstances.
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