Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
> On Wed 2003-04-02 at 00:09:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Vincent Danen wrote:
>> > Name        : openssh                      Relocations: (not relocateable)
> [...]
>> > - PermitRootLogin disabled by default
>> 
>> Ugh.  Could you at least make that only for high security levels?
>> The justification for that feature is severly lacking.
> 
> I would say it the other way around: What is the justification to
> allow remote-login as root *by default*? Simply use "su" or "sudo"
> instead; or change the default, I you cannot be bothered to use these.

scp my friend, scp.

> That said, Vincent changed only the default. The actual value will
> depend on your msec setting. So for practically all cases, nothing has
> changed. Only if something goes wrong or you install no drakxtools at
> all, you get a more secure default, which is a good idea, INMSHO.

Well that sounds OK.


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