Description of problem:

My F9 system got hacked via SSH login of root.  Admittedly root had a weak
password, but previously releases of Fedora/sshd disallowed root login by
default.  Dictionary search allowed root login over SSH even though
/etc/ssh/sshd_config had #PermitRootLogin commented out. I had to explicitly set
PermitRootLogin no to stop root login. This is a changed in default behavior.

I was hacked before I had setup /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to limit
system exposure to just a few outside systems.

Hacker was from domain ending with .ro.  Created mysql and test logins.  D/l a
file called "Diana.jpg" that was a zip file into /dev/shm.  Contained a ssh-scan
executable that touched every binary on system /bin and /usr/bin attaching some
trojan.  By the time it was caught there were 100 processes of this ssh-scan and
the network light on the computer was clicking away.  Likely d/l all my files
for further scan.  Had to do a full reinstall of F9.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

openssh-server-5.0p1-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:

easily.  Ensure #PermitRootLogin is commented out in sshd_config.  Try it.

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