Re: [tlug] The Mother of All (bash) Commands

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> emiddleton@example.com writes:
>
>  > So it requires remote root login?
>
> I'm not sure what you are asking.  Of course you need to have a root
> login to log in as root.  But AFAIK all Unix systems have a root
> login; it's just that no password is set, so logins are effectively
> disabled.
>
> If you *have* a root key-pair for the target system (which need not be
> different from your local system), and you have the private key
> available, it will use it (either via agent or ssh -i).
>
> TRAMP can also use sudo and maybe super, but those were sort of bolted
> on later.
>   

Sorry I was a bit unclear.  I was asking whether TRAMP directly logs 
into the root account over ssh? I generally disable root login by ssh 
login for various reasons.

Edward