Subject: Re: connecting as root
From: Martin Wilhelm Leidig (mwl@moss.net)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 13:14:25 EST
Alistair,
you wrote in "Re: connecting as root" [00-01-29 15.19 +0100]:
>There are sound technical reasons(tm) for not connecting as
>root. That is
>why it is not a config file option.
Could you (or another one) please explain those technical
reasons a bit further (and why it shouldn't be a config file
option therefor)? I know that netatalk would spread it's
.AppleDouble files all over the file system if I'd mount /, but
that shouldn't be a problem as the disk is big enough. What
other reasons are there?
Another question: is there information on that on the Web? I
have the HOWTO and looked into FAQ-o-matic but didn't find more
dokumentation.
>You can't normally connect as root to ftp
Sorry, I can. Wednesday I forced proftp to let me in as root,
and i did that with MkLinux' ftpd before.
>or any other remote service, it is not just netatalk that
>enforces this.
With telnet I can, too. Otherwise I couldn't administrate my
Linux-Mac from the MacOS-Mac, and that's the cause for my desire
to <Subject>.
[snip]
>Microsoft - because god hates us
Yeah, man ... :-))
-Moss-
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