On Fri, 06 Jul 2001, Juha J?ykk? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : > > (Put the public key in the .authorized_keys file for the root user) : > > TUrn on RSA/DSA authentication and 'allow root login' : > One word of warning aboce would allow logging in using root password as well : : I distrust allowing root logins from anywhere but local console(s) : or non-modem gettys i.e. from anywhere over the not-owned-by-me cable. : 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.
Try using ssh keys, as described above, however, in the ~root/.ssh/authorised_keys file, prepend all the keys with from="127.0.0.1" /dopey
