[Gllug] Debian SSH not letting root login anymore?

[Rich Walker]

Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk> writes:

> Rich Walker wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I recently upgraded one of our machines, and now can't do   ssh -X root at thoth to it any more.
>> Login as a normal user still works.
>> /var/log/auth.log suggests pam is causing problems:
>> Nov  9 15:42:31 thoth sshd[8093]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh
>> ruser= rhost=gateway.shadow.local  user=root
>> Nov  9 15:42:35 thoth sshd[8093]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 10.1.1.17 port 43186 ssh2
>> Nov  9 15:42:35 thoth sshd[8093]: fatal: PAM: pam_setcred(): Permission denied
>> Any ideas where I should be looking?
>
> Have a look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. There's probably a "PermitRootLogin no" statement in there
> somewhere. Change to yes and restart ssh.

That one I'd already done, alas. It was the PermitEmptyPasswords one!

cheers, Rich.

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