Abotu setting 'PermitRootLogin=no' in sshd_config

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:11:27 +0000 (UTC)
P J P <pj.pandit at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

>     Hello,
> 
> Sshd(8) daemon by default allows remote users to login as root.
> 
>   1. Is that really necessary?
>   2. Lot of users use their systems as root, without even creating a
> non-root user. Such practices need to be discouraged, not allowing
> remote root login could be useful in that.
> 
> Does it make sense to disable remote root login by default? If so, do
> we need to just report it to the maintainer or it would be treated as
> a feature?

I think its a bad idea, but I say so as a user that when installing a
new system, especially a remove vm  will log in as root via ssh and
join the machine post install to my ipa domain.

Dennis
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