crosspost: openssh allows root login by default?

[Stefan Jeglinski]

I have been upgrading openssh regularly as new versions come out. 
It's been a long time since my original install, but I KNOW at one 
point that I had disabled root logins. Imagine my surprise to find 
that somewhere along the way, my root logins have been reenabled. 
Either:

a) I have been hacked
b) some upgrade/install of openssh got me back to allowing root logins.

I thought root logins were disabled by default? Survey: anybody out 
there with root login enabled that you didn't know about?


Stefan Jeglinski