do you use sudo with a password? this and the unknown username is what get as additional security then?
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lntl@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoIMO there’s no reason to permit root login via ssh in any circumstance, ever, in all cases, absolutely.
For all the people thinking, “well the world doesn’t work in absolutes, there’s always a special case!” There isn’t.
If a user needs to use elevated permissions, there are many ways to do that without exposing root. sudo(8) is one way to do that.
7EP6vuI@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the great explanation! Seems like because logging in as root is never necessary and indeed never done; people confuse sudoer for root login.