Johnny A. Solbu wrote: > 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.
Nope, I just tested it and that is not true.
