Hello Torsten,
From the man page sshd_config(5):PermitRootLogin Specifies whether root can log in using ssh(1). The argument must be yes, prohibit-password, forced-commands-only, or no. The default is yes. If this option is set to prohibit-password (or its deprecated alias, without-password), password and keyboard-in- teractive authentication are disabled for root. My bet is it is set to "prohibit-password". HTH, Torsten
yes, I checked this before: cat /mnt/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/PermitRootLogin.conf # Allow root login on ssh PermitRootLogin yes and output of ssh -vvv is: ... debug1: Next authentication method: password [email protected]'s password: debug3: send packet: type 50 debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply debug3: receive packet: type 51 debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password Permission denied, please try again. snippet from etc/shadow: root::19415:::::: Joe
