Re: able to login as root via ssh :-(

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Donald Arseneau wrote:
> More people these days say you shouldn't allow root to log on by ssh.
> A bad side effect of that is root then can't fix problems with a /home
> partition, because you need a functioning /home to log in as non-root.
> Thus the guru has to log on at the console, but they say root shouldn't 
> do that either.
>   
That is not entirely true, as you can always create a user with home
directory /tmp (for example), to be able to recover /home remotely. This
user does not need any extra privileges and could just 'su -' to become
root after all. Also, when a user logs in, with his/her home-directory
on the /home partition, the shell (pbb /bin/bash), will just not be able
to chdir, and leave you with the defaults.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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