You are the system administrator of an SSH server. You want to configure your system to prevent the root account from being used for remote logins. What file contains the necessary setting to prohibit users from remotely logging into the SSH server as "root"? What setting needs to be configured in this file?

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You are the system administrator of an SSH server. You want to configure your system to prevent the root account from being used for remote logins.
What file contains the necessary setting to prohibit users from
remotely logging into the SSH server as "root"? What setting needs to be
configured in this file?

 

 

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