Re: [cobalt-users] Telnet

[jk@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It's not whether or not they can guess the root password or the admin
> password, it's whether or not they can get into the box at all to try to
> guess.

Ofcourse.


> I've always thought that Red Hat only allows members of wheel to su to
> root, but I could be mistaken; I've not done that many installations

I think you're mistaken. At least all the RedHat machines I have here
(I've tested it on three different versions of RedHat) will let anyone
su to root... even if they're not member of the wheel group.

> Imho, the only people who should be able to get in as root are people
> who really need to, and they should understand, and use, secure
> passwords that cannot be easily guessed.

sudo rules :-)


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