On some providers yes, in fact I explicitly enabled root SSH login for those. Ot...

		gighi on May 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server At... On some providers yes, in fact I explicitly enabled root SSH login for those. Other providers (such as Digital Ocean) use the root account by default even for Ubuntu, although the password is set to a really secure and random one.