On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Victor Subervi <victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote: > What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to login > directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to root. So I > edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read: > #PermitRootLogin no > (It was the dir I didn't know.) It initially said "yes", but it was and is > commented. How is it that I then and still can login directly as root? Is > reboot necessary? remove the # and save the file, then service sshd restart