11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
9:39 a.m.
The next line is the important one. All my users and passwords come
via the network. Root's mail gets sent to another account on another
machine. The installer wants me to make a LOCAL user to sudo and etc
but I want to use my REMOTE for that. For that I do the initial setup
as root and then disable it. If I do things Debian's way I have to set
up root and user passwords, log in as the user, sudo to set up the
machine, make my remote user able to sudo, redirect root's mail, then
remove the local user and hunt through the entire system looking for
anywhere that username may have been referenced and remove it. (or
leave the local user there as a time bomb to come back and kill me
later WHEN (not IF) someone hacks it)
On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 07:47 -0500, Daniel Seagraves
wrote:
There's also the stupid new provision in the
installer that you MUST
create a local non-root user to install the system.
Although this is offtopic for other reasons, it's probably been
about 10
years since I had a usable root account on any system I've installed.
These days you should be using sudo.
Gordon