[arch-releng] September ISO file and SSH root login

Sebastiaan Lokhorst sebastiaanlokhorst at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 13:06:57 UTC 2015


2015-09-09 15:02 GMT+02:00 crow <crow at linux.org.ba>:

> I solved this by editing the “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” file and adding
> this “PermitRootLogin yes”, and restarting sshd daemon.
>
> Was this changed with purpose or is it with the openssh included with
> September ISO now default option.
>

This was changed in OpenSSH 7.0. The default "PermitRootLogin yes" was
replaced by "PermitRootLogin prohibit-password".[1]

[1] http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.0


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