Re: Not obeying /etc/default/login

[Lai Zit Seng]

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Billy Kim wrote:

> Is anybody aware that ssh does not obey settings in /etc/default/login?
> 
> On Solaris, in /etc/default/login, setting CONSOLE=/dev/console prevents
> users from using telnet and rsh to login as root. I noticed that ssh
> doesn't care and still allows root to login in.
> 
> Is this an oversight? Or are we to assume that ssh is so secure that
> it's OK to do this?

You can still prevent root logins by setting 'PermitRootLogin no' in
/etc/sshd_config.

.lzs