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[Thomas Cameron]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 08:04 -0700, wj wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 09:26 -0700, bruce wrote:
> > you don't want the line to be commented...
> > 
> > you want to have the line 
> > 
> > PermitRootLogin no   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > 
> > no comments...
> > 
> > this tells the ssh daemon to never allow the root user to login via ssh...
> > 
> > -regards
> 
> You are right. Thank-you (all of you) for pointing that out. This list
> is always educational (well almost always...)
> 
> This always confuses me, I think it a little counter intuitive to have
> the option there at it's default setting and then to comment it out. It
> always gives me the impression that if I remove the options it will
> change to the setting.
> 
> Is there some logic behind this? I mean since it's the default setting
> why not leave out the comment? To me that would be more intuitive and I
> would not have to read the comments at the beginning of the file ;-)

LOL - read the first 12 lines of /etc/ss/sshd_config!  If it was a snake
it'd have bit ya!  :-)

Thomas