Re: dangerous to leave root logged in?

From: Unruh (unruh-spam_at_physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 03/29/05

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    Date: 29 Mar 2005 02:36:36 GMT

    Trygve Selmer <trselmer@start.no> writes:

    >hans_schulze98@yahoo.de wrote:
    >> Keith Keller wrote:
    >>
    >>>On 2005-03-28, hans_schulze98@yahoo.de <hans_schulze98@yahoo.de>

    >> There's a tool here that checks for updates and tells me which ones are
    >> out there (about 1 per day), what it updated and why. Every time it
    >> starts it hogs the cpu and disk for 2 minutes (rpm database or
    >> whatnot), and you have to stare at the screen for 2 minutes before it
    >> runs. Or you just leave it running (which I do).

    >This is what cron is all about.

    Well, that would not solve his problem, except that he should run it at 3AM
    or whenever noone is using the system.

    >> There's some email sent to root about small things here and then. You
    >> can periodically log in to see if there's mail. Or you leave the mailer
    >> running (which I do).

    ?? No idea what you mean. Mailer programs (postfix for example) do run all
    the time.

    >Make an alias from root to a regular user (your own user account).

    >> There's small jobs to do with changing config files or changing file
    >> permissions or moving files between accounts here and then. You can su
    >> each time. Or you leave a root xterm running.

    >This is why we have su/sudo.

    Lousy reason. Just su from your own account. Unless you do not care if any
    of your users can run whatever they want as root. I hope you have no
    enemies amongst your users.

    >> And so on. Probably everything can be done with su/sudo per-command,
    >> probably even on a text terminal. It only takes twice as much typing.

    >Use ssh to connect remotely for this kind of jobs, even if it means you
    >have to learn basic CLI programs. X is overkill and unsafe.

    Agreed

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