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[wj]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:26 -0700, bruce wrote:
> you don't want the line to be commented...
> 
> you want to have the line 
> 
> PermitRootLogin no   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> no comments...
> 
> this tells the ssh daemon to never allow the root user to login via ssh...
> 
> -regards

You are right. Thank-you (all of you) for pointing that out. This list
is always educational (well almost always...)

This always confuses me, I think it a little counter intuitive to have
the option there at it's default setting and then to comment it out. It
always gives me the impression that if I remove the options it will
change to the setting.

Is there some logic behind this? I mean since it's the default setting
why not leave out the comment? To me that would be more intuitive and I
would not have to read the comments at the beginning of the file ;-)