Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Chris G wrote:

>    Have a root account (in which case synaptic asks for the root
>    password rather than the user's password).
      for security. there is a better method:
        use the passphrase authentication, or ssh-agent, to login as root, and put
          PasswordAuthentication no
       in sshd_config
       That way, the only serious argument against the root account
       ( known login name) is no more valid.

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Pierre Frenkiel