Juha Jäykkä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any other ideas? Or is it really safe to allow root logins to sshd? > It is just an old rule of thumb that root must never log on over the > wire but that may be old news from times of telnet - never had any > need of root logins over the wire until perhaps now.
The traditional reason for disallowing root logins has nothing to do with security; the reason is to give (maybe) more accountability because a real user id is logged along with the actions that root does.
