OMG, I didn't know that! I'm willing to bet a lot of people on the list didn't, either! I guess I'm just lucky as, since I don't need it, I don't run it. Mike On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:08 -0500, alex@crackpot.org said: > Quoting "der.hans" : > > > Am 20. Mai, 2008 schwätzte Erich Newell so: > > > >> If you do this however...I highly recommend editing the /etc/ssh/sshd_config > >> file to not allow root logon. > > > > Shouldn't sshd generally be configured to not allow logging in as root? > > It should. But even recent distros like RHEL5 shipped sshd_config > with 'PermitRootLogin yes', which for some unfathomable reason is the > default set by the OpenSSH project. > > I just checked the source code for OpenSSH 5.0p1, which is the most > recent stable release I could find, and 'PermitRootLogin yes' is still > the default in sshd_config. > > http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/openssh/portable/openssh-5.0p1.tar.gz > > alex > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss