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Re: [opensuse-factory] request for comments: disable ssh daemon by default
  • From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:04:32 +0200
  • Message-id: <fstpv0$7c0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ciro Iriarte wrote:

Regarding the regular user, as I stated before, not all servers need
regular users, think about a cyrus imap black-box server... I'm just
giving my impressions...

But if policy was "no root logins via ssh", all servers _would_ need a
regular user login. Having a regular user account vs. having ssh open
for root login sounds quite a bit safer to me, from a probabily pov.


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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