On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:03:00PM +0000, scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:

We often connect from remote machines to the server to administer the system, make changes etc. If root can not log in on sshd then how do we do this ? In most cases, it is not possible or worthwhile to go to the server to work.

So do we, all the time. ssh to your unprivileged user account and use sudo.