Re: Things Linux Can Do Without

Ignoramus23731 <ignoramus23731@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:O6OdnW0ITvH63N3VnZ2dnUVZ_vzinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx:


There is nothing wrong with this, but make sure to pick unguessable
root password, for example h1b32pp2m33, disable logon of root vis SSH
with password,


The reason for this is there are thousands of machines connecting to
all SSH servers that they can find and trying to brute force guess
root password.

How is this safer? I still need ssh to login as a normal user. Then I su to
root. Couldn't the malicious robots do the same even with user account ssh
access open?

--
Rahul
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