[rhelv6-list] SSHD root login

[Grzegorz Witkowski]

Hi Krzysztof,

The default is "PermitRootLogin yes" as per man page. It is confusing a
little bit though in my opinion as it is commented out in a default
sshd_config file. That means you need to specifically set it to "no" and
restart sshd if you want to disallow root access.
I logged in as root with no problem to my fresh RHEL6.1. After adding
PermitRootLogin no and restarting sshd it happily returns Permission denied,
please try again. :)

Regards,
Ges

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Krzysztof Mazurek
<kmazurek at neotek.waw.pl>wrote:

> Welcome,
>
> on RHEL 6.1 and 6.2 beta I can see quite funny thing ...
>
> ssh root at machine_IP
> ....
>
> login as: root
> Access denied
> root at 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
>
>
>
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