Re: [cobalt-users] FIX - can't su to root, email stopped working, gui stopped working, postgres database is down, virtual sites disappeared

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday 02 March 2002 06:04 am, baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > And of course, now that you can login as root...you can also ftp in as
> > root(g).
> >
> Thom;
> I don't think that is correct.
> You my be able to scp or sftp in, but not vanilla FTP.
> Please correct ME if I am wrong.

Gerald, you are correct.  FTP can be reconfigured to allow root logins, but
that's totally independent from the SSH config file.  Incidentally, I
generally consider the fact that the openssh PKG allows root login by
default to be a feature, not a hole.  I do consider the fact that it allows
SSH protocol 1 traffic by default to be a hole though and I plug that
immediately after an install.  My 2 cents.

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