Re: PubkeyAuth disallowed for root only?

Hello Dirk,

What is the value of PermitRootLogin in your sshd_config ? It can be
used to cause this sort of behavior.


Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> we have a very weird phenomenon:
>
> On two of our RedHat EL4 Update 4 servers root cannot login via ssh
> using public keys. All other users can. root is asked for a password
> instead.
>
> sshd_config is RHEL4 default (that means pubkey auth allowed etc.),
> and the rest is as well. The public keys are correctly appended to
> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. Rights on .ssh and its files are correct.
> I have even tarred+gzipped and copied roots .ssh directory to another
> server and tested there.
>
> I have compared lots of things (sshd_config, pam config, even roots
> .bash_profile) to a reference system where it works - everything I
> have thought of is exactly the same.
>
> PubkeyAuth has worked fine on the problem servers, but one of the
> admins must have changed something, and of course no one remembers
> anything. I am sure it is something small and silly I overlook.
>
> Any hint and help is appreciated.


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