On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 19:22 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 20:53 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > This time, use strong passwords. And disable root loging via SSH. > > > > Thomas > > > > I don't understand why Fedora ships with root ssh enabled. > In fact, it would be nice if no uid under 500 was enabled. > > May not have helped in this case, but the sshd default imho is wrong, > especially since the default is to start the service upon install. Perhaps this is done to allow a remotely-installed machine (e.g. a vnc install) to be administered after the first reboot, when there are no regular users or certificates installed? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
