Re: PermitRootLogin enabled by default
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:11:00PM +0200, InfoEmergencias - Luis Gómez wrote:
> IMHO, we'd better set it to no. I always thought it was much better. Is
> there any landscape in which you may want to allow direct root login to
> your host?
Yes, there is. For example I have some servers that retrieve their user
information from a database. If the database is not reachable, an
ordinary user can't login, but root can, since it's the only local
account with login privileges.
But then this is a special case that doesn't require root logins enabled
by default. On the other hand I don't see why allowing direct root
logins is a problem.
- Sebastian
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