Match Group GROUPNAME User !root This does nothing. (but sshd restart doesn't tell it's syntactically incorrect!!!..., values should be delimited by "," comma.. a groupname will never have space in it..)
and: Match Group GROUPNAME, User *,!root This excludes the root if it's in the GROUPNAME group. So they not just differ by "2 Bytes" On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Edward M <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/01/14 09:18, Ez Egy wrote: > >> #1 >> >> Match Group GROUPNAME, User *,!root >> >> #2 >> >> Match Group GROUPNAME User !root >> >> What is the difference between #1 and #2 in the SSHD_CONFIG? >> >> If someone could help me.. thanks in advance.. >> >> > May want to take a look at 'PATTERNS' section of 'ssh_config' manpage.

