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

[Rich Adamson]

> > 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.

A 'man sshd_config' provides the parameters necessary to
either restrict root access, or better yet, allow only selected
userid's. Regardless of what the defaults are for various
distro's, its just one more step that should be addressed.