On October 4, 2004 19:43, Nick W wrote:
> I have a server box to which I want root access from my local subnet (ie
> 192.168.1.*) but from external nets I only want normal users to be able to
> log on. I want to accomplish this without logging in as me then using su.
> Is that possible?

AFAIK you can do PermitRootLogin=without-password to get pubkey auth for root 
while keeping normal password auth for your users. of course, you can still 
log in remotely if you have the credentials, but it's at least safer than a 
password login.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo

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