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Bug 76363

Summary: opensshd allows root login by default
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Eero Volotinen <eero>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Eero Volotinen 2005-01-01 18:29:37 UTC
PermitRootLogin is yes by default, this should be no, since there is lot of ssh bruteforcers nowdays on move.

This is security issue, I think it should be no, so there is not so much security breaches using root account...

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-01 18:39:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41215 ***