Hi, I don't know if you have the same problem but this message showed up in putty for me after a putty version change. The reason was that putty tried to use GSSAPI authentication by default. You can find more details at this URL:
http://superuser.com/questions/312197/putty-0-61-why-do-i-see-access-denied-message-after-i-enter-my-login-id Hope that helps. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:48, Alejandra Ramirez <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe Krzysztof doesn't have problem with the root login, he wanted only > remark that although the system permit the root login, it says "access > denied". > > Any way, I have some RHELv6.1 linux systems with the root access permited > but I don't obtain the Krzysztof message. > > Best regards, > -- > Alejandra Ramírez > > El 24/10/11 14:51, Grzegorz Witkowski escribió: > > Hi Krzysztof, > The default is "PermitRootLogin yes" as per man page. It is confusing a > little bit though in my opinion as it is commented out in a default > sshd_config file. That means you need to specifically set it to "no" and > restart sshd if you want to disallow root access. > I logged in as root with no problem to my fresh RHEL6.1. After adding > PermitRootLogin no and restarting sshd it happily returns Permission denied, > please try again. :) > Regards, > Ges > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Krzysztof Mazurek <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Welcome, >> >> on RHEL 6.1 and 6.2 beta I can see quite funny thing ... >> >> ssh root@machine_IP >> .... >> >> login as: root >> Access denied >> root@machine_IP's password: >> >> >> First is displayed "Access denied" and then suddenly password prompt >> appears ... and you can login without any problem ;) >> Is it just in my case? >> >> In sshd_config file I have: >> [....] >> # Authentication: >> >> #LoginGraceTime 2m >> #PermitRootLogin yes >> #StrictModes yes >> #MaxAuthTries 6 >> #MaxSessions 10 >> [,...] >> UsePAM yes >> [...] >> >> Krzysztof Mazurk >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv6-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list > > -- Zizi "A deep understanding of reality is exactly the same thing as laziness." - Dilbert, 2011. 03. 20. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
