Michael A. Peters wrote: > > It's a known user ID on a system, and an incredibly powerful one. > No one will have root access that doesn't have a regular user account as > well, therefore, forcing remote root users to first log in as their > regular user and then su to root prevents a known username that happens > to be all powerful from being bute-forced. The only problem I've found with this is that X applications fail after using su. But it's OK if you only need to use text-based admin tools. -- http://jonathan.rawle.org/
