Re: Enabling telnet, ftp, pop3 for root...

Steve Ackman <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (06-04-05 23:46:49):

With my "real" computers, I do ssh to connect as root

Also bad. You should ssh to a user account and then su to root only
when necessary.

Now really, why is that more secure than logging into the root account
directly? That's a common and very unreasonable misconception. Your
statement holds for non-secure protocols (i.e. Telnet), but there you
shouldn't even login as a normal user.


Regards.
.

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