I have restarted sshd, yes. I have not tried allowusers, I'll take a look at that, but why doesn't just uncommenting the line for root login work? Thanks for the help, by the way. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Ari Moisio Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 1:18 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Disabling root login on ssh? Hi! Have you restarted sshd? Another way is to define users who can login, keyword is allowusers in sshd_config. HTH -- arimo On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Sina Bahram wrote: > Hi guys, > > For some reason I can't get this to work, I uncommented the line in my > /etc/ssh/sshd_config file that reads PermitRootLogin yes and changed > it to no; however, it still allows me to login as root. > > What can I do to disable root login via ssh? > > Take care, > Sina > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup