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Author: Joel Dudley
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Subject: root be gone
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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? I dont =
have my copy of Maximum Linux Security handy :-( Thanks in advance.

- Joel

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