At 14:08 11-05-1999 -0400, 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?

That's not a bug, it's a feature... 8-)
You stop root login in /etc/sshd_config setting the parameter
"PermitRootLogin" to "no".

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