On Sun, Sep 20, 2015, at 07:57 PM, Philip Guenther wrote: > 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.
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