Suggestion for manual
Walton Yantis
wyantis at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 20:24:40 UTC 2010
Hi there,
at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/securing-freebsd.html
in the first paragraph, 14.3.1, I suggest the following change based
on a problem just encountered.
there as well. You can do this by editing your /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file, and making sure thatPermitRootLogin is set to NO. Consider every
access method -- services such as FTP often fall through the cracks.
Direct root logins should only be allowed via the system console.
there as well. You can do this by editing your /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file, and making sure thatPermitRootLogin is set to no. Consider every
access method -- services such as FTP often fall through the cracks.
Direct root logins should only be allowed via the system console.
The capitalization of PermitRootLogin variable to NO caused ssh
startup to fail on boot.
Walt
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