On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 09:51 -0500, Leonard Isham wrote: > The only way to ensure your system is clean, and likely to remain clean, is to: > > 4. Disable root remote login (use su or sudo) With this, ssh gives different messages when password is correct and incorrect. Better solution: use AllowUsers in sshd_config. This gives access only to selected accounts, instead of all. -- Marius Andreiana Epon Business Applications http://www.epon.ro