Vivek: >> James: >> (4) Most distros now ship with disallowing ROOT from directly >> SSHing into the box. But there are also other safeguards you can do. >> http://www.openssh.com/ > Fedora/RHEL doesn't seem to be among those distros. But thankfully, it > is part of our server hardening process. Are you sure? I have F7; in sshd_config is this: #PermitRootLogin yes Iow, this must be un-commented to allow root login. Or, am I missing something here?