how to react on ssh attacks?

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:27 -0500, Blake Thornton wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Then why have I had to manually disable it on every Fedora install I
> > > have done?
> > >
> 
> Can someone point me to what I need to do to disable this???
> 
in /etc/ssh/sshd_config is a line that looks like this:
	#PermitRootLogin yes

Change it to this then restart sshd
	PermitRootLogin no

> Thanks!
> Blake
>