root login with openssh

Hi all,
Simple question. I was playing with ssh and I tried to disable root login.
In sshd_config I've changed the line with "#PermitRootLogin yes" to
"#PermitRootLogin no" then I tried to login with root account from
somewhere else and I can still get in. Then I removed # from the line with
"#PermitRootLogin no" to "PermitRootLogin no" with no result.
My question : does someone know how to disable root login?




Andre

On 06.07.2005, Andre Lauw <lauw0028@planet.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Simple question. I was playing with ssh and I tried to disable root login.
> In sshd_config I've changed the line with "#PermitRootLogin yes" to
> "#PermitRootLogin no" then I tried to login with root account from
> somewhere else and I can still get in. Then I removed # from the line with
> "#PermitRootLogin no" to "PermitRootLogin no" with no result.
> My question : does someone know how to disable root login?

Have you restarted SSH daemon after uncommenting line with
"PermitRootLogin"?

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Andre Lauw wrote:
> Hi all,
> Simple question. I was playing with ssh and I tried to disable root login.
> In sshd_config I've changed the line with "#PermitRootLogin yes" to
> "#PermitRootLogin no" then I tried to login with root account from
> somewhere else and I can still get in. Then I removed # from the line with
> "#PermitRootLogin no" to "PermitRootLogin no" with no result.
> My question : does someone know how to disable root login?
>
>
>
>
> Andre
Oh
Did you restart sshd service ?
try the following command:

service sshd restart

linuxbaby wrote:

> Andre Lauw wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Simple question. I was playing with ssh and I tried to disable root
>> login. In sshd_config I've changed the line with "#PermitRootLogin yes"
>> to "#PermitRootLogin no" then I tried to login with root account from
>> somewhere else and I can still get in. Then I removed # from the line
>> with "#PermitRootLogin no" to "PermitRootLogin no" with no result.
>> My question : does someone know how to disable root login?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Andre
> Oh
> Did you restart sshd service ?
> try the following command:
>
> service sshd restart
It works thanks for your help.

Andre

Did you try restarting sshd afterwards?
On Gentoo I'd do /etc/init.d/sshd restart

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Andre Lauw <lauw0028@planet.nl> writes:

>Hi all,
>Simple question. I was playing with ssh and I tried to disable root login.
>In sshd_config I've changed the line with "#PermitRootLogin yes" to
>"#PermitRootLogin no" then I tried to login with root account from
>somewhere else and I can still get in. Then I removed # from the line with
>"#PermitRootLogin no" to "PermitRootLogin no" with no result.
>My question : does someone know how to disable root login?

You have to remember to restart sshd after you make the changes. sshd does
NOT reread its config file every time it is used. It reads it once.
Or you could do
killall -SIGHUP sshd
to have it reread its config files. (man sshd)


Note the # in froont of the line turns it into a comment.





>Andre