[BUGS] [jlm at caamora.com.au: ssh an oddity]

[Callum Gibson]

On 19Dec07 11:23, Callum Gibson wrote:
}}Dec 17 12:32:46 host1-s sshd[43471]: error: PAM: authentication error for root from host2.caamora.com.au
}Try checking the PermitRootLogin setting in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
}By default, root is not permitted to login over ssh. This would need
}to be enabled on whichever is considered the "remote" machine.

BTW, if this was the problem, you should also see an additional error
in /var/log/auth.log such as the one below:

Dec 19 11:23:46 merton sshd[90349]: ROOT LOGIN REFUSED FROM 10.180.10.208

    C

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