From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 18 11:31:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07605 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:31:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from infowest.com (infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07598 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:31:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from agifford@infowest.com) Received: from infowest.com (liberty.infowest.com [207.49.60.254]) by infowest.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00946; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:30:48 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <351020C9.5A8FFCE4@infowest.com> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:30:17 +0000 From: "Aaron D. Gifford" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Castillo , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh and root logins. can you disable? References: <199803181036.FAA24117@ Relationships.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > ---------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message