F22 System Wide Change: Set sshd(8) PermitRootLogin=no

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Lubomir Rintel  wrote:

> For this reason, I avoid privilege escalation when I need to conduct
> privileged operations, but open a separate session. The sshd daemon
> running with root privileges is more trustworthy to me than my user
> session.


I have no idea what you mean here.  Turning off direct root login in SSH
doesn't make SSHD itself run as that user.  SSHD is still running as root.

Rahul
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