Cannot disable root login, Gentoo

matt123 · 09-03-2009, 11:55 PM

I am trying to disable direct root login access. I have done the following within /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

changed:
Protocol 2,1
to:
Protocol 2

changed:
PermitRootLogin yes
to:
PermitRootLogin no

restarted:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart

however I can still login straight in with root.

What am I missing?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

hikari · 09-04-2009, 03:42 AM

What authentification method are you using? Good idea is to disable all other authentification methods except plain login/password and try again. I'm suggesting this because

Code:

PermitRootLogin no

works just as supposed to on my system.
Try modyfing those lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Code:

RSAAuthentication no
PubkeyAuthentication no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
UsePAM no
PasswordAuthentication yes

restart sshd and try again.

archtoad6 · 11-09-2009, 04:17 PM

What worked? ... Did you find a solution?

haverer · 11-10-2009, 04:48 AM

Hi Guys

Im having the same problem - I cannot disable the root user.

I have changed the etc/ssh/sshd_config file to show:

#LoginGraceTime 120
PermitRootLogin no
StrictModes no

I then issued the command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart

However I can still log in as the root user.

Any ideas?