Password question.

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 23 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
> >  
>
> Thanks Paul.  You better understand my situation.  I truly wish I had
> the security concern.  I live and am totally alone.  I may see one
> person a week, and then they are not someone who has time to talk.  I
> see the mailman once in a while.

But you must also be concerned about someone coming in from the outside and 
being able to become root even though they are 100's of miles away.  That is 
part of the reason for security....   and the reason for having a firewall.