root be gone

[Joel Dudley]

Doh!!  Can't believe I asked the PLUG before reading the man page.  I
apologize for my lazyness.

- Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Buettner" <kev@primenet.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: root be gone


> On Jun 13,  4:34pm, Joel Dudley wrote:
>
> > Newbie question here.  I am setting up a firewall here at work and
> > since I will need to have openSSH daemon running on it I want to be
> > able to disable root logins so only su is available.  How is this
> > done?
>
> If you're asking how to disable root access through ssh, this is
> an sshd option.  Just change the line
>
> PermitRootLogin yes
>
> to
>
> PermitRootLogin no
>
> in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
>
> Kevin
>
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