Re: openssh remote upgrade procedure?

["Michel Messerschmidt" <lists@michel-messerschmidt.de>]

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Alexandros Papadopoulos said:
> +  I enabled password authentication in sshd_config
> (PasswordAuthentication yes)
> + aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade, which updated the packages
> and restarted the openssh daemon
> + shortly thereafter my SSH connection was terminated
> + I tried to login to the machine, but never got the chance:

Are you trying to login as root?
You need to set "PermitRootLogin yes" in sshd_config to allow password
authentication for root.



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