[Centos] Secure server install

Greg Knaddison greg.knaddison at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 22:38:29 UTC 2005


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:22:38 -0500, Beau Henderson <silentbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Donavan, I think he was making a suggestion to the thread starter
> regarding disabeling direct root login, not a complaint :) 

Yes, thanks for the translation.

> Not all of
> us hate the direct root login, especially with a fresh install thats
> half way around the world and you got a monkey installing the OS :) (
> I've been there done that w/ freebsd ).

For boxes in an environment behind a firewall, I use remote root login
all the time without much concern about the (in)security of the
situation.

Greg



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