crosspost: openssh allows root login by default?

[John]

Telnet root logins are disabled by default.  SSH it is not for at least the
2 or 3 years I have been using it.
John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Jeglinski" <jeglin@4pi.com>
To: <linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org>
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Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 7:06 PM
Subject: crosspost: openssh allows root login by default?


> 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
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