Marcus Williams wrote: > > I noticed in logwatch reports today that someone had tried logging in > as root to one of my servers recently. No surprise there as this > happens every day. However I have explicitly set up a set of users in > allowed_users and root isnt one of them (I also have AllowRootLogin > set to false). > > Anybody got any idea?
Probably you enabled UsePAM together with ChallengeResponseAuthentication. (see `man sshd_config`) PAM does not know anything about the AllowUsers/Groups and PermitRootLogin settings... Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

