On Thursday 29 May 2008, Gilles wrote: > Hello > > With all those scripts trying to connect to SSHd as "root", I was > wondering if it'd be OK to rename this account to eg. "homer", to act > as a first line of defense? > > Are there unknown consequences to doing something like that? > > If not, is it done by just editing /etc/password with vi, or is there > a better way? > > Thank you.
Unless you have explicitly set PermitRootLogin to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, it is not possible to login as root using ssh. -- Pieter de Goeje _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
