SSH and root logins

[khuede at otto.harvard.edu (Patrick Ohiomoba)]

ssh does afaik allow root login by default.  In openssh (which I suggest
as an open source alternative with a truly open source license even for
commercial use) the default is also root login.  All of
this can be changed by your etcdir/sshd_config or /etcdir/sshd.conf by
setting PermitRootLogin to no.

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John Abreau wrote:

> 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?
> 
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