From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 22:07:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA349106564A for ; Sun, 11 May 2008 22:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nepbabucxspamfree@yahoo.ca) Received: from smtp115.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp115.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.84.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98DDA8FC0C for ; Sun, 11 May 2008 22:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nepbabucxspamfree@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 7194 invoked from network); 11 May 2008 21:41:00 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Received:From:Date:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:X-pubkey-ID:X-pubkey-URL; b=WrwhWNHi9A6VwYG9L+SOpYFas5BMMI2XvIgSisH1PEEcQTdZW4msGlW77y2by59ha3g/KQYYb2nUxm4wbXUPEIiTanuFaVCA+B/5FR4tegNIsYX70xmF5RFVgVsmbRA4MrmgjLQhnnoJRuGUfjpvUqX6aK0YPozRWTOyllP1rIQ= ; Received: from unknown (HELO interrupt.driven.box) (nepbabucxspamfree@203.192.95.61 with login) by smtp115.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 May 2008 21:40:58 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: aa50PMUVM1kwzcDpRwcny.zIEajxcLvN4hyBN5M9A.7ZXBMOvOYsmOPnWMQgseumJtg0odYUWjaXIrHqDE_IujKLQcPT8HqiArwOLDTYH8EzX.a5DOcSL0flS15slbM- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: by interrupt.driven.box (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 12 May 2008 07:11:03 +0930 From: "nepbabu" Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:11:03 +0930 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080511214102.GA18120@interrupt.driven.box> References: <812883.11120.qm@web54010.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20080511195846.GC81732@demeter.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080511195846.GC81732@demeter.hydra> X-pubkey-ID: 1024D/5DAE3BE5 X-pubkey-URL: http://www.livejournal.com/pubkey.bml?user=nepbabu Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: root login stops working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:07:40 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thus spoke Chad Perrin on Sunday, 11 May 2008 at 13:58:46 -0600: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:50:46AM -0700, Dennis Flynn wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE= #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/u= sr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > >=20 > > About a day after install root login no longer works - even on the cons= ole. [ .... ] > For security purposes, you should probably actually configure your Debian > system to behave more like your FreeBSD system, with regard to SSH. Set > the PermitRootLogin value in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to "no" to prevent > remote logins over SSH as root. This behavior is intended as a security > measure. To access root remotely, log in over SSH as an account that has > su access, then su to root, rather than just logging in as root directly. I think sshd_config in Debian has "PermitRootLogin" to "no" by default (i.e= =2E, as part of default installation). It's been a while since I've munged = with the default configs (correct me if I am wrong). --=20 Cheers, Bikal KC (Please use: nepbababucxspamfree_at_yahoo DOT ca) Journal: http://nepbabu.livejournal.com || pubkey: see header "Rule 6: There is no Rule 6." - Rob Pike "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities= =2E" - Fran=C3=A7ois-Marie Arouet --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.fossnepal.org iD8DBQFIJ2fucd1dCF2uO+URAjmbAKCellySVKeuoTBstGXZFVGvkzmFbwCdFF7C fNi3ntren2p/sH+gWkJVOok= =C9qm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--