On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 08:04 -0700, wj wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:26 -0700, bruce wrote: > > you don't want the line to be commented... > > > > you want to have the line > > > > PermitRootLogin no <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > > no comments... > > > > this tells the ssh daemon to never allow the root user to login via ssh... > > > > -regards > > You are right. Thank-you (all of you) for pointing that out. This list > is always educational (well almost always...) > > This always confuses me, I think it a little counter intuitive to have > the option there at it's default setting and then to comment it out. It > always gives me the impression that if I remove the options it will > change to the setting. > > Is there some logic behind this? I mean since it's the default setting > why not leave out the comment? To me that would be more intuitive and I > would not have to read the comments at the beginning of the file ;-) LOL - read the first 12 lines of /etc/ss/sshd_config! If it was a snake it'd have bit ya! :-) Thomas
