how to react on ssh attacks?

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Tue Oct 25 03:53:07 UTC 2005


On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote:

> From: "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters at mac.com>
>
>>> As you have already realized, it is generally not safe to allow ssh
>>> access for root.  In fact, Fedora by default does not allow root to have
>>> ssh access.

Ask yourself why is is not safe to ssh to root?


>> Then why have I had to manually disable it on every Fedora install I
>> have done?
>
> Yep, root access is enabled by default.
>
> Danny
>
>

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