Re: Giving up on Fedora 9

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:02:02PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Bill Bogstad <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> My preference is to set AllowUsers in sshd_config so only the specified 
> users can login via ssh. I restrict root logins to specific origins, e.g. 
> 
>     AllowUsers [...]  [hidden email] 
> 
> to allow root logins from the rsync backup server. I also disallow 
> password authentication and instead drop an ssh public key into 
> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys