[PLUG] PermitRootLogin no

glen e. p. ropella gepr at tempusdictum.com
Tue Apr 20 21:01:23 UTC 2010


I'm running sshd on a server and I've set:

   PermitRootLogin no

But I _assumed_ it would stop attempts like the following:

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Apr 19 07:11:49 huntlab sshd[15840]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication
failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=204.228.225.88
user=root

Apr 19 07:11:50 huntlab sshd[15840]: Failed password for root from
204.228.225.88 port 50082 ssh2
-----------------------

And I've heard babble about PAM settings and such.  So, I'm thinking
that I just don't have it locked up completely.  I expected the sshd
server to immediately refuse the connection without having to go through
the challenge response or password auth.  Does anyone have any clues to
hit me with?

-- 
glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com




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