2014-11-21 8:11 GMT+01:00 P J P <[email protected]>: > Sshd(8) daemon by default allows remote users to login as root. > > 1. Is that really necessary? > 2. Lot of users use their systems as root, without even creating a > non-root user. > Such practices need to be discouraged, not allowing remote root login > could be > useful in that. > > Does it make sense to disable remote root login by default? If so, do we > need to just report it to the maintainer or it would be treated as a > feature? >
IIRC, the main reason for PermitRootLogin being enabled by default was to prevent a remote server from becoming inaccessible in cases such as a network mounted /home suddenly becoming unavailable. Regards Christian
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