[Gllug] Why have root passwords at all?

[Nix]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Tethys murmured woefully:
> Bruce Richardson writes:
> 
>>How do you know that they do not have it?  It would be very difficult to
>>allow them to administer your network and yet prevent them from having
>>any opportunity to take a copy of the password files.  Once they have
>>that, all they need is a password cracker and some time.
> 
> Choose a strong password?

Star out the passwords and use an SSH key? ssh foo at localhost is easy
enough to wrap up in a script called `su' :)


Crack *that*, John. :)

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