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Root SSH Access Denied but stil works
| Posted by joshuayip, 09-12-2011, 10:39 AM | | Hello
I am new to VPS and Linux administration and WHM (with many more menu options). I have gotten my root access. Using putty, I tried logging in. I dont notice having this issue before I restored my reseller Cpanel account. Now when I login using putty, I am seeing Access Denied before the pwd prompt. After I enter the password, it lets me in and everything seems working.
Is there anything wrong here?
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| Posted by jzukerman, 09-12-2011, 12:58 PM | | I've noticed this issue with every server I've used after I upgraded to the latest version of PuTTY recently.
See the last post here:
http://centos.org/modules/newbb/view...19107&forum=41
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 09-12-2011, 01:26 PM | | are you switching your user to root after logging in as another user ? or directly logging in as root ?
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| Posted by GOT, 09-12-2011, 01:42 PM | | Its probably trying a different mode of authentication first, such as with keys. Its nothing to worry about.
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| Posted by joshuayip, 09-12-2011, 02:05 PM | | This post describe the situation
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/net...ied-putty.html
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| Posted by joshuayip, 09-12-2011, 02:32 PM | | I tried using Tunnelier from Bitvise. This message does not appear any more. So I conclude its a putty thing (I hope) ...
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| Posted by GOT, 09-12-2011, 02:59 PM | | Putty may be sending it some form of authentication and its failing and dropping back to keyboard-interactive.
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| Posted by LinuxSecurityExpert, 09-12-2011, 06:31 PM | | Change the permit root login option inside of /etc/ssh/sshd_config. This is generally disabled by default.
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| Posted by hb9aj4fn, 09-13-2011, 12:32 AM | | It is related to Putty and ssh2: The solution is to change Putty settings under "SSH" - "Auth", there you uncheck "Attempt GSSAPI authentication (SSH-2 only)". Then click back to "Sessions" and save the change for "Default settings".
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