enabling root over ssh on F11

Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 13:32:24 UTC 2009



Rick Sewill-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> No clues...but, please check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file again.
> 
> Do you, by any chance, have "allowusers" or "allowgroups" or
> "denyusers" or "denygroups" in it.
> 
> I don't know how sshd will behave if you try to log into an account
> that is denied because of the above keywords.  Will sshd let you try
> to log in only to always say the password is wrong, or will sshd not
> even give you the chance to enter a password before denying you?
> 
> 

Apart from checking that permitRootLogin is yes, if there is an allowusers
line then root should be included in the list of user names I think and of
course make sure root is not included in the denial list.

I have used root login on F11 with no problem at all.   
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