disabling root login (was: Giving up on Fedora 9)

["David Rosenstrauch" <user=20@nabble.blu.org>]

 Bill Bogstad wrote: 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Kent Borg <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> David Kramer wrote: 
>>> and you can't log in as root, you use sudo instead (by default). 
>> I frequently do "sudo bash" and go from there.  The only time I miss a 
>> root login is when I want to scp something as root. 
> 
> It's trivially easy to turn root login back on.  Just give root a 
> password (and enable root login in your sshd config file) and 
> you should be golden.  I generally use sudo if I'm already on the 
> machine in question, but if I'm accessing a *buntu machine remotely 
> I tend to ssh directly to root. 
> 
> Bill Bogstad