On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:44:37 -0600, Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:36 -0500, Noah Miller wrote: > > > IMO, your best defence is leaving ssh's default setting > > > which disallows root logins entirely. There's no reason > > > for a remote user to ever have to log in as root. Root > > > access should be obtained by a logged-in normal user > > > using sudo, or su. > > > > I'm not sure what happens when you do a fresh compile and > > install of OpenSSH, but every distro I've ever worked with > > (Red Hat, Gentoo, Slackware, Vector, Tao, Yellow Dog, > > Debian, Knoppix, SuSe, Linspire, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, > > OS X) has allowed root logins via SSH by default. Maybe > > they're changing that on newer versions of some distros. > > I dunno. > > 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 know Mandrake does annoying things if you try to login as root on > anything but console to also discourage it's use. > > I don't expect much from Linspire as it attempts to be windows. As for > the rest in your list other than OS X, I wouldn't bother trying to run > them when you have Debian available. > -- > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Testing and Unstable might not, but Stable does. I've had to change it in the last 3 Woody installations I've done in the last three weeks. I'm talking about SSH specifically. -- Dana _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
