Victor Subervi 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? It's not going to have any effect unless you remove the # sign. You don't need to reboot, but do a 'service sshd restart'. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com