[rhelv6-list] SSHD root login

[Mezei Zoltan]

Hi,

I don't know if you have the same problem but this message showed up
in putty for me after a putty version change. The reason was that
putty tried to use GSSAPI authentication by default. You can find more
details at this URL:

http://superuser.com/questions/312197/putty-0-61-why-do-i-see-access-denied-message-after-i-enter-my-login-id

Hope that helps.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:48, Alejandra Ramirez
<alejandra.palacios at mail.telcel.com> wrote:
> I believe Krzysztof doesn't have problem with the root login, he wanted only
> remark that although the system permit the root login, it says "access
> denied".
>
> Any way, I have some RHELv6.1 linux systems with the root access permited
> but I don't obtain the Krzysztof  message.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Alejandra Ramírez
>
> El 24/10/11 14:51, Grzegorz Witkowski escribió:
>
> 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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