On Sunday 12 August 2012 19:28, David Walser wrote: > Through the PAM configuration for SSH shipped with the openssh-server > package, root login is broken. Here's why. /etc/pam.d/sshd has: > auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ssh/denyusers > > The file /etc/ssh/denyusers has "root" in it by default.
I read somewhere some time ago that PermitRootLogin in sshd_config is ignored if PAM is used. That may be the reason for this. -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID: 0xFA687324
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