[Mageia-dev] SSH PAM configuration

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 12/08/2012 21:57, David Walser a écrit :
> 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.
There is an explicit comment in the configuration file:
# Depending on your PAM configuration,
# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".

My understanding is just than some specific PAM configuration would 
eventually allow root user to authenticate through a password, instead 
of a key.

Regarding your original problem, feel free to commit the relevant 
modifications.
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