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Date:      Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:30:17 +0000
From:      "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
To:        Mark Castillo <markc@Relationships.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh and root logins. can you disable?
Message-ID:  <351020C9.5A8FFCE4@infowest.com>
References:  <199803181036.FAA24117@ Relationships.com>

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Mark Castillo wrote:
> 
> currently, my ssh installation allows root to login remotely.  Is this ok?
> Or is there a way do disable remote logins via ssh for root?
> 
> thank you,
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Mark Castillo
> Systems Integration Engineer
> Relationships.com, Inc.
> ----------------------------------------------
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Check the ssh daemon config file (/etc/sshd_config on my system) and
make sure that the line:

  PermitRootLogin no

is correctly set to "no".

Aaron out.

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