On 2009 Mar 13, at 17:54, Luke S Crawford wrote:
[email protected] writes:except when it makes sense to have ssh root logins enabled (so thatcentral management tools can do root privilage required functions on thebox for example)I can't come up with a reasonable case for setting PermitRootLogin to yes.
Certain kinds of clusters in an isolated (both physically and logically) network, such that only other cluster machines can log in. I wouldn't advise it but we had such a cluster once.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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