Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH
Maan Jee wrote on 13-05-2006 10:31: Hi I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do that? Add the user admin to the wheel group in /etc/groups. To Install a Web Server, which distribution I should install, User or other? I always install the bare minimum and then goto ports and install the apache port. HTH HAND ! Nils ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH
Maan Jee wrote: Hi I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do that? To Install a Web Server, which distribution I should install, User or other? thanks vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The user admin is a member of the group wheel is he? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH
Nils Vogels wrote on 13/05/2006 09:43:24: Maan Jee wrote on 13-05-2006 10:31: Hi I have created a user admin and using that to login through SSH from a remote machine. But I CANNOT su, change to the root login? How can I do that? Add the user admin to the wheel group in /etc/groups. I would recommend that you dont create an admin user. Create normal user accounts named after the user who will be logging in. Add users who will need to be able to do admin tasks to the wheel group. Then install sudo and configure it to allow users in the wheel group to run commands as root. sudo has many advantages over using su. 1. It logs every action so you can find out what you and other admin users did. This gives an audit trail and is very useful when you forget how you did something. 2. It puts a time limit on how long a user can run root tasks without re-entering their password. This prevents a user from forgetting they are root and leaving an unattended root console when they go to get a coffee. 3. You can, if necessary, control which commands a user can run as root. Hope this helps John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: Unable to change to SU through SSH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend that you dont create an admin user. Create normal user accounts named after the user who will be logging in. Add users who will need to be able to do admin tasks to the wheel group. Then install sudo and configure it to allow users in the wheel group to run commands as root. The reason this is a Good Thing(tm): a large number of in the wild exploit scripts/bots/programs already attempt to use a admin username in their attempts to break your security (also, 'root', 'administrator', 'webmaster', 'bob', 'joe', 'fred', 'test', etc.). I've yet to see one that tries to log in as manjee, though, unless it has parsed the username as part of an e-mail address in a web site or server error page. In e-mail, aliases to actual user accounts should rule the day. Kevin Kinsey -- It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. -- Thomas Carlyle ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
