Re: Why restrict root logins?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 21:50:19 (-0500), Todd M. Wilkinson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Why restrict root logins?
>
>          There is only one problem I have seen with this 
> ....Xforwarding.  The steps to get
>          Xforwarding to work via ssh after a user "su's to root" is pretty 
> ugly.

It's supposed to be ugly.  In an ideal world it would be impossible.

You DO NOT want to run X11 stuff as root if you can possibly help it!

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