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 -- Jeroen van Meeuwen, LPIC-1, MCP http://www.kanarip.com/ C6B0 7FB4 43E6 CDDA D258 F70B 28DE 9FDA 9342 BF08
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