On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Sun Sep 16, 2001 at 07:07:07PM -0400, Yura Gusev wrote:
>
> SSH, not OpenSSH... OpenSSH as packaged (via updates) for Mandrake is
> secure.
Today yes. Tomorow?
> Preventing root logins via ssh is silly. Any cracker worthy of the
> title could brute force your primary user's account and then start to
> play. If you use an easy-to-guess root password, you shouldn't have
> access to root.
Let's not make it personal ok?
> Arbitrarily deciding that users should not allow root logins via ssh
> is not necessary. A setting in msec could do this, or if you really
> don't want to permit root login via ssh, turn it off yourself. While
> I agree it may be more secure, it's not *that* much more secure to
> start changing things now.
OK i agree msec is a solution.
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