crosspost: openssh allows root login by default?

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>I thought root logins were disabled by default? Survey: anybody out
>there with root login enabled that you didn't know about?

 As far as I know, this is the default behaviour. I usually install
openssh by compiling from source, and it has always allowed root access by
default even after installing over a previous version that didn't.
Honestly though, I haven't found a convincing argument to disable root
access via SSH2 (although I *rarely* do it, I much prefer to sudo). I do
however only allow SSH2 and not SSH1.

Cheers,

Chris

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