[Mageia-dev] SSH PAM configuration
Olav Vitters
olav at vitters.nl
Mon Aug 13 12:04:36 CEST 2012
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:39:07AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Why would anyone need root login over ssh? I don't allow it on my
> server and it has never caused me any problems. Su to root works
> perfectly well and avoids the security risk, so I don't understand
> this thread.
Remote backups. Quite easy to setup an SSH key which only runs rsync.
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Regards,
Olav
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