Victor: Also, check out section 4.4.2 of the security guide: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/security-guide/s 1-wstation-privileges.html It addresses your question precisely. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com <http://www.jammconsulting.com/> CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU 1GB dedicated RAM, 40GB RAID storage, 500GB/mo premium BW, Zero downtime _____ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Victor Subervi Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:52 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Change from Root 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? TIA, V On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> wrote: > I am not sure what a VPS is VPS stands for virtual private server. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU, 1GB dedicated RAM, 40GB RAID storage, 500GB/mo premium BW _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091027/76072275/attachment-0005.html>