Re: Problem with ssh connection

["Pieter Dumon" <pieter.dumon@xxxxxxxxx>]

If I would use your settings, all my colleagues could grab the key to
the computer room, log in on the console, su to root and just access
each other's stuff ? Doesn't look very attractive to me.  What am I
not getting here ?

>     If your console is marked as being secure in /etc/ttys, yes.  You don't
>     have to mark it as secure.  I suppose in a large machine room that many
>     people have access to you wouldn't want to do that, or if you are
>     running your consoles into terminal servers.  But you can still have a
>     blank password to allow wheel to 'su' to root in those situations
>     and simply require that the person on the console (if not marked secure)
>     login as themselves and then su.  At least then you have a record of
>     whos account was used to access root.
>
>     For most situations there is no point having a password associated
>     with root... it won't be any more secure then not having a password
>     at all.
>
>                                         -Matt
>                                         Matthew Dillon
>                                         <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>