attack 2

Charlie McVeigh cmcveigh at adelphia.net
Thu May 12 13:30:17 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:08 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 08:54 -0700, wj wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 22:44 -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 22:23, jim lawrence wrote:
> > > > How do you disable root ssh logins ?
> > > 
> > > In /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> > > 
> > > Uncomment this line, if it is commented out:
> > > 
> > > PermitRootLogin yes
> > > 
> > > and change it to:
> > > 
> > > PermitRootLogin no
> > > 
> > > Then restart the ssh daemon:
> > > 
> > > # /etc/init.d/sshd restart
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hmm ...
> > 
> > I went to disable mine, I am behind a firewall but I am trying to
> learn
> > how to make my system more secure, and I think that my sshd_config
> the
> > line is already commented out:
> > 
> > #PermitRootLogin yes
> > 
> 
> That line commented out is telling you what the default is.
> To disable root logins via ssh you need to uncomment the line and
> change
> it to read
> 
> PermitRootLogin no
> 
> 
> >  
> 
> > I just did a fresh install a few days ago and I know I have not
> changed
> > it. Maybe there was a security update that fixed this issue?
> > 
> 

Shouldn't the change be made in sshd_config instead of ssh_config?




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