Donavan, I think he was making a suggestion to the thread starter regarding disabeling direct root login, not a complaint :) Not all of us hate the direct root login, especially with a fresh install thats half way around the world and you got a monkey installing the OS :) ( I've been there done that w/ freebsd ). -- Beau Henderson http://www.iminteractive.net On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:04:42 -0600, donavan nelson <donavan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Knaddison wrote: > | On that subject, it's worth considering that many installations are > | not terribly "secure" right out of the box. For example, SSH allows > | protocol version 1 and remote root logins by default on Centos. Many > | admins consider this to be rather insecure - some have no problem with > | it in their environments. > > This is merely a duplication of the configuration of RHEL out of the > box. IMHO, security due diligence is not a function of the distro provider. > > .dn > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFB+WV6CRFXD+VcGBkRAodBAJ4qFG4aZhdRBRzWawLQRKZ+xINK/gCfYIhA > tXnJ+XfDPdam5AUEPC7+dTs= > =wVed > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >