Watson Michael wrote the Nov 25, 2003 4:21 PM:

I was eventually able to disable remote root logins via ssh by setting "PermitRootLogin" to "no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but I'm still curious why the settings in securetty don't seem to be working. Can anyone point out what I'm missing?

AFAIK, the securetty settings are ONY for TTY's, not PTY's. Somebody correct me if I am wrong. You can check to see if root is permitted to login to the TTY's on your machine...