Re: authentication failure

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

Tarek Soliman <tarek-spam@zeusmail.bounceme.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:05:24AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > 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.

[snip security measures]

> Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (again)
 
I just stumbled across that by accident. You know way more about
security then I do ;)

BTW, IM*VERY*HO I'm not entirely convinced the maintainer is right, but
who asks me? :)

Regards,
Andrei
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