On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:15, John Mellor wrote: > sshd has a "PermitRootLogin" flag in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to do just > this. By default, it is set to "no". Change it to "yes" and send a > SIGHUP to sshd to get it to re-read its config file and you should be > all set. IIRC, default on RH and FC are "yes" as opposed to what you state. I usually will make it to "no". (and change protocol to 2 only)