Re: Giving up on Fedora 9

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 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 


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