Tarek Soliman <tarek-spam@zeusmail.bounceme.net> wrote: > Do not log in as root via ssh or even allow it. > There are reasons why the default in Debian is PermitRootLogin no The default is "yes". See /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/Readme.DEBIAN.gz for the maintainers oppinion. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)