Best Vista Error EVAR, gaming, and software requests, and an Ubuntu gripe

[storkus at storkus.com]

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 at crackpot.org said:
> Quoting "der.hans" <PLUGd at LuftHans.com>:
> 
> > 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
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