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Re: Remote Access of Root



On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:

> > > I do hope this is for home use and not in an office environment. either
> > > way it's a bad practice. I sugest some book on system administration
> >
> > Why is it bad practice for home use?
> 
> because bad habits and work practices follow you to the workplace.
> Some disciplines are important to keep even when it's not a "live
> server".

But if I am not a sys admin? Do you run Quake on you server, latest
2.4.0-test3-pre2-ac2-riel7-aa2 kernel? Is that a reason not to run it on
your home machine? 
Should I have a 12 character password with capitals+symbols+digits on my
home machine? Should I have a password at all on my home machine?

The answer is simple. Unix model of security is almost useless in a
single user machine. It has some uses in a home with few machines used
by a few family members, but thumb rules from university and internet
servers are invalid.

-- 
Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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