[Discuss] PSA: no root login for SSH

[Rich Pieri]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:40:31 -0500
Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:

> "username" "number of failed logins"
> root  4328

Only ~4K root login attempts. My peak at LNS was around 20K before I
deployed denyhosts and later fail2ban.

> is why it can be a good idea to set the "PermitRootLogin no" option in
> your sshd config.

This only protects the root account. It doesn't protect other accounts
which might have sudo privileges.

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Rich Pieri