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