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[Vivek J. Patankar]

Michael Klinosky wrote:
>  > Fedora/RHEL doesn't seem to be among those distros. But thankfully, it
>  > is part of our server hardening process.
> Are you sure?
> I have F7; in sshd_config is this:
> #PermitRootLogin yes
> Iow, this must be un-commented to allow root login.
> Or, am I missing something here?

Yes, I did an installation of RHEL5 on a test server, an IBM X-Series 
Model 232. I was able to login remotely as root with the default 
configuration. To stop this I had to uncomment 'PermitRootLogin' and 
change the value to 'No'.
Didn't try on fresh Fedora installations though.


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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
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