> Hope these steps help saving time the next one googling for "debian > jessie enable root ssh" to workaround this bug ;)
Thank you Paul, indeed it helped me, as I too ran into this issue in a fresh Jessie install. I didn't have to downgrade OpenSSH, however, just edit PermitRootLogin as you did. I found after the fact that this change is documented in openssh- server/README.Debian.gz, under the "PermitRootLogin" header. It was confusing enough to find that the sshd configuration was the issue, when /var/log/auth.log suggested pam_unix was at fault: Apr 25 17:36:55 linux-image sshd[1573]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=10.0.2.2 user=root Apr 25 17:36:57 linux-image sshd[1573]: Failed password for root from 10.0.2.2 port 35103 ssh2 Apr 25 17:37:01 linux-image sshd[1573]: Failed password for root from 10.0.2.2 port 35103 ssh2 Apr 25 17:37:05 linux-image sshd[1573]: Failed password for root from 10.0.2.2 port 35103 ssh2 Apr 25 17:37:05 linux-image sshd[1573]: Connection closed by 10.0.2.2 [preauth] Apr 25 17:37:05 linux-image sshd[1573]: PAM 2 more authentication failures; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=10.0.2.2 user=root Anyway, the change comes from Debian bug #298138, which lay dormant for over nine years before being wrapped up this past March. --Daniel -- Daniel Richard G. || sk...@iskunk.org My ASCII-art .sig got a bad case of Times New Roman. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org