About ssh login

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jan 30 08:18:07 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 11:36 +0530, Anoop Chandran wrote:
> One thing to check might be to make sure root login
> is enabled. Look for this line in your /etc/ssh/sshd-config
> PermitRootLogin yes 

Not always a brilliant thing to do.  It can be better to disallow root
logins, forcing users to login as themselves, then become root.

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