+++ Sudhakar Chandra [linux-india] <03/07/02 13:42 -0700>:
> Also, why do you allow people to ssh in as root?
You can blame RMS for this default setting in linux, I think.
Classically the 'su' commands on most unices require that a user be in the
"wheel" group in order to get root. The traditional GNU implementation did
not enforce this restriction (since RMS didnt like it).
That's carried over into sshd policy as well, afaict.
FreeBSD doesn't let you ssh in as root. On linux, that's one of the first
things we disable when we bring up a new linux box (most of our machines have
ssh firewalled out from the outside world, but still...)
-srs
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