Renaming "root" to "homer"?

Gilles gilles.ganault at free.fr
Thu May 29 08:51:57 UTC 2008


On Thu, 29 May 2008 10:48:27 +0200, Pieter de Goeje
<pieter at degoeje.nl> wrote:
>Unless you have explicitly set PermitRootLogin to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, 
>it is not possible to login as root using ssh. 

Right. I did this because I was tired of having to log on as homer and
then sudo'ing to root, using two complicated passwords :-/

I guess I should learn how to use public/private keys instead.



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