attack 2

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:30 -0400, Charlie McVeigh wrote:
> 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 ?
> > > > 

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> > > 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?
> 

His line above says he is looking at sshd_config