On 04/04/2016 12:50 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 04/04/2016 09:54 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: >> I don't think any of the common web or e-mail threats have payloads that >> work on Linux anyway. But if you have an open ssh port and your root >> password is "root", you will end up with unwanted software installed, >> such as an IRC server to control somebody's botnet... >> >> > At least Ubuntu is set up so that root cannot login from the > net. Only user accounts can log in via the net, then you can > use su or sudo to get the required privilege. > > Jon If you really, really, really want to log in as root over the network (not that I'd recommend it) all you need to do is uncomment the "CONSOLE" variable in /etc/login.defs file
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