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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
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