[Discuss] PSA: no root login for SSH

Dale R. Worley worley at alum.mit.edu
Tue Dec 22 22:39:26 EST 2020


> From: Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net>
> To: discuss at blu.org

I use the rule that only "user" accounts, not accounts installed by the
distribution or software packages can be logged in via ssh.  That means
that an effective attacker must know *something* about my particular
setup to have any hope of logging in.

Dale


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