Bug#227340: ssh: PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only is broken

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

 >       If this option is set to ``forced-commands-only'' root login with
 >       public key authentication will be allowed, but only if the
 >       command option has been specified (which may be useful for taking
 >       remote backups even if root login is normally not allowed). All
 >       other authentication methods are disabled for root.
 

You haven't shown us root's authorized_keys file, but I suspect you
didn't actually specify a command correctly in that file?

Matthew 

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