Michael Klinosky wrote:
> 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?
Yes, I did an installation of RHEL5 on a test server, an IBM X-Series Model 232. I was able to login remotely as root with the default configuration. To stop this I had to uncomment 'PermitRootLogin' and change the value to 'No'.
Didn't try on fresh Fedora installations though. -- Regards, विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar) Registered Linux User #374218 Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) Linux 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 x86_64
