Hi, Have tried to add "PermitRootLogin no"? Does it behave the same with this line? I can't test later on. Regards, : Grzegorz Witkowski : 覧覧覧覧覧 ｰ sent from Android ｰ <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 24, 2011 3:45 p.m., "Krzysztof Mazurek" <<a href="mailto:kmazurek@neotek.waw.pl">kmazurek@neotek.waw.pl</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Welcome, on RHEL 6.1 and 6.2 beta I can see quite funny thing ... ssh root@machine_IP .... login as: root Access denied root@machine_IP's password: First is displayed "Access denied" and then suddenly password prompt appears ... and you can login without any problem ;) Is it just in my case? In sshd_config file I have: [....] # Authentication: #LoginGraceTime 2m #PermitRootLogin yes #StrictModes yes #MaxAuthTries 6 #MaxSessions 10 [,...] UsePAM yes [...] Krzysztof Mazurk _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list <a href="mailto:rhelv6-list@redhat.com">rhelv6-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list</a> </blockquote></div>