ssh with password not working unless PermitRootLogin yes

Asked Sep 01 '16 at 20:20

Active Jan 01 '17 at 18:17

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On Ubuntu 16.04 I have in my sshd_config

PasswordAuthentication yes
PermitRootLogin prohibit-password

However non root users are always disconnected when trying to login.

Only when I set

PermitRootLogin yes

non-root users can log in.

How can I allow non-root users to log in, but disallow passwords for root user?

edited Sep 01 '16 at 20:26

asked Sep 01 '16 at 20:20

jdog

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Changing `PermitRootLogin` shouldn't do anything to non-root users. Can you post the output of `ssh -vv` when connecting from your client as an unprivileged user? – Zoredache Sep 01 '16 at 21:00
I can't reproduce the problem now. Will rebuilt copy of server from script and try to reproduce – jdog Sep 01 '16 at 21:19
Normally, ssh permissions are granted with `AllowUsers user1 user2` in sshd_config – Broco Sep 02 '16 at 13:12
@Broco the purpose of this setup is to provide SFTP access to different users of a shared web server. Can you elaborate on "normally"? – jdog Sep 04 '16 at 17:06
That should be `without-password`, rather than `prohibit-password`. – Michael Hampton Jan 01 '17 at 18:37
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@MichaelHampton They are aliases. – Tanmay Jan 01 '17 at 19:34

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