Re: Why restrict root logins?

[R P Herrold]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Todd M. Wilkinson wrote:

>          So this brings up another point....does anyone have  a good
>          procedure that would
>          allow folks to SU to root either via sudo or just plain su and
>          still be able to forward
>          X traffic through SSH?

Plan A

1.  ssh as an end user to the desired remote host

2.   ssh root@localhost

   (DISPLAY variable is properly set and it 'just works')

Plan B

... or just use sudo

What is the issue?

-- Russ Herrold



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