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How can I disable SSH login for a root user? (I am the account owner)
- Posted on December 16, 2014
Asked by Jtowsk
How can I disable SSH login for a root user? (I am the account owner)
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You can disable root SSH login by editing
/etc/ssh/sshd_config, settingPermitRootLogintono, and then restarting ssh:Hello there,
By default on new Ubuntu servers, the
PermitRootLoginis set toyes. So you can search only forPermitRootLoginin thesshd_config.To disable root login you have to change this line:
To:
However keep in mind that by default, on Ubuntu, password authentication is already set to
no:Once you make a change to the
sshd_conffile you need to also restart the SSH service:Hope that this helps!
Allow only certain users to ssh