On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > Hi > > The defaut sshd installation allows root login. > It could be a major security problem to allow root login by ssh. > In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I can see this: "#PermitRootLogin yes". > Perhaps would it be better to put "PermitRootLogin no" instead. >
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