Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:32:40 +0300 From: Thanos Rizoulis <apatewna@yahoo.gr> To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie@gmail.com> Cc: DSA - JCR <juancr@dsa.es>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connecting user root with ssh Message-ID: <465C1D68.8000502@yahoo.gr> In-Reply-To: <499c70c0705290145w309bd308u83f39f3791c5b3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <11066.217.114.136.135.1180427946.squirrel@llca513-a.servidoresdns.net> <499c70c0705290145w309bd308u83f39f3791c5b3f@mail.gmail.com>
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O/H Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri έγραψε: > Hello, > > You can create a user and add the user into the wheel in /etc/group > > It's not recommended to ssh to the box using root, use su after you > log to the shell. > > If you are insist to ssh as root which is disabled by default in > sshd_config, you can uncomment it, you are warned, do not allow SSH to > your box with user root at all. ...and along the way you will want to install "denyhosts" or key authentication... Having root logon enabled remotely is just asking for trouble. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _________________________________________ Thanos Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user
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