On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:36 -0500, Noah Miller wrote: > > IMO, your best defence is leaving ssh's default setting > > which disallows root logins entirely. There's no reason > > for a remote user to ever have to log in as root. Root > > access should be obtained by a logged-in normal user > > using sudo, or su. > > I'm not sure what happens when you do a fresh compile and > install of OpenSSH, but every distro I've ever worked with > (Red Hat, Gentoo, Slackware, Vector, Tao, Yellow Dog, > Debian, Knoppix, SuSe, Linspire, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, > OS X) has allowed root logins via SSH by default. Maybe > they're changing that on newer versions of some distros. > I dunno.
I'll call bullshit on that. I know for a fact that Debian does NOT allow root logins except from console. Hell Debian isn't allowing root logins from X anymore due to the likely hood for you to try and use root for more than administration. I know Mandrake does annoying things if you try to login as root on anything but console to also discourage it's use. I don't expect much from Linspire as it attempts to be windows. As for the rest in your list other than OS X, I wouldn't bother trying to run them when you have Debian available. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
