[Mageia-dev] SSH PAM configuration

[Johnny A. Solbu]

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.

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Johnny A. Solbu
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