[Mageia-dev] SSH PAM configuration

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Mon Aug 13 19:06:13 CEST 2012


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On 13/08/12 11:04, Olav Vitters wrote:
> 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.
> 
I use rsync on the server for local backups, and I use SSH with keys
to access the server from laptops for maintenance tasks, but I have
never managed to make rsync over ssh with keys work.  People tell me
to just use ssh without keys, but I'm reluctant to do that.  Maybe one
day I'll find something that steps me through it, so that I can find
the missing link.

Of course, I tend to back up user data rather than system, so again, I
don't need remote root login.

Anne
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