I recently disabled root login via ssh on my ubunutu server as I was getting quite a lot of ssh attempts with root. I did this by editing the /etc/ssh/sshd_config
file and restarting ssh.
However, when I recently checked my log file again, I saw there were numerous other attempts with root in there? - The log message was "failed password" - but if this did work, why would it simply not fail at the first hurdle and say "failed - root login disallowed" or something similar?
Is there a way to tell whether I have configured this correctly?