SSH and root logins

Brian J. Conway dogbert at clue4all.net
Mon Jul 10 13:39:04 EDT 2000


> We've got ssh2 on all our Unix hosts at work, and I just discovered that
> sshd allows root logins, something I find disturbing. Is this how ssh is
> configured by default? How do I disable this behavior?

sshd_config.  This'll be either in /etc or /etc/ssh or maybe /etc/ssh2
depending on your install.  You might also want to check ssh_config
(client config) for things like "fall back to rsh," which are nice to
disable.

-b


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