[Mageia-dev] SSH PAM configuration

[David Walser]

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.