On 2017/10/13 20:25, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> In article <[email protected]> Stuart 
> Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I had an OK from Ingo for mine, but I prefer your version. OK with me!
> > 
> 
> One more (funny) thing.
> 
> After reading the man page, besides reading some info in the openssh
> site I googled bit about the issue.  In some ubuntu forum someone was
> asking what the entry "PermitRootLogin without-password" in his
> sshd_config file really meant.  He thought he was allowing to log in as
> root with a blank password.
> 
> I mean, don't fully trust in the effectiveness of self-explanatory
> keywords. :-)
> 

That is *exactly* why "prohibit-password" was added.

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