[Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk@home scary log

[Doug Lytle]

Noah Miller wrote:

>> I'll call bullshit on that. I know for a fact that Debian does NOT 
>> allow root logins except from console. Hell Debian isn't allowing 
>> root logins
>> from X anymore due to the likely hood for you to try and use root for 
>> more than administration.
>
>
> I'm sure that's true nowadays.  I haven't played with Debian in years, 
> or slackware, or FreeBSD.  All the others on the list I have messed 
> around with (fairly) recently, and they allow root logins via ssh by 
> default.
>

I'm glad somebody brought this up.  I just checked my Mandrake 9, 9.2, 
10 and 10.1 servers.  In the sshd_config all servers were set, by 
default, to PermitRootLogin=yes.

I've since changed them.

Doug