scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:

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From: Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@thenilgiris.com Subj: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Err messages on ssh login Date: Sat 3 Dec 2005 16:23 Size: 381 bytes To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in

On Saturday 03 Dec 2005 3:47 pm, Arun K. Khan wrote:

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Also, it is not a good practice to login as root even over a ssh link.

True! What you actually should be doing is log in as some user (who has restricted account) and then "su".

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i thought that sshd by default does not permit root loging?

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 ?

For different distros, default sshd options may vary depending on how it was compiled and packaged. But you can prohibit root logins by specifying option in /etc/sshd/sshd_config ------ sshd_config (or whatever sshd config file is) ------ PermitRootLogin no ------ ------

Usually root login is allowed using sshd.

Regards,