On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Jason Barbier wrote: > To add to this it asks you if you wish to permit root login over SSH, > suggest that you say no, and tells you the default is no. So you had to > implicitly tell it root logon was allowed at install, or explicitly edit > the config file to allow for root logon.
...or he installed the latest released version, 5.7, and didn't create a user during the install, in which case no question for this asked and sshd is left configured to permit root logins. Anyway, default is changed in the 5.8 release.
