Why is my system doing this to me? various failures

[Ingemar Nilsson]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> I'll set up SSH now. I do have the wife's winbox with putty here on
> the LAN so I can try that. How do I set up SSH so that root cannot log
> in? I'm not very experienced.

You edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure the line

PermitRootLogin no

is in the file. It might already be there, but commented out.

Regards
Ingemar