On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:46:30PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Regarding the root login via SSH, the log says: > -------------- > [13:36:44] Checking if SSH root access is allowed [ Warning ] > [13:36:44] Warning: The SSH and rkhunter configuration options should be > the same: > [13:36:44] SSH configuration option 'PermitRootLogin': yes > [13:36:44] Rkhunter configuration option 'ALLOW_SSH_ROOT_USER': no > -------------- > > > So looks like in Ubuntu root login via SSH is not disabled. But IIRC root > account itself is disabled in Ubuntu. So this warning also is benign ... > looks like.
Debian also has this enabled by default. See README.Debian file for openssh-server for an explanation. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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