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<H1>[Mageia-dev] SSH PAM configuration</H1>
<B>Guillaume Rousse</B>
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<I>Mon Aug 13 09:34:46 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le 12/08/2012 21:57, David Walser a écrit :
><i> Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
</I>>><i> On Sunday 12 August 2012 19:28, David Walser wrote:
</I>>>><i> Through the PAM configuration for SSH shipped with the openssh-server package, root login is broken. Here's why. /etc/pam.d/sshd has:
</I>>>><i> auth required pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ssh/denyusers
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</I>>>><i> The file /etc/ssh/denyusers has "root" in it by default.
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</I>>><i> I read somewhere some time ago that PermitRootLogin in sshd_config is ignored if PAM is used.
</I>>><i> That may be the reason for this.
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</I>><i> Nope, I just tested it and that is not true.
</I>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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