Hello, On 14/08/13 15:30, François Patte wrote: > Moeover, by default on my debian install, I could see that root login > through ssh is allowed: is it really the default configuration? > Yeap ! For details, read the subsection `PermitRootLogin set to yes' in the first section of /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/README.Debian.gz hth, Jerome