connecting user root with ssh
Thanos Rizoulis
apatewna at yahoo.gr
Tue May 29 12:32:42 UTC 2007
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
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Thanos Rizoulis
Electronic Computing Systems Engineer
Larissa, Greece
FreeBSD/PCBSD user
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