Re: Bug#271822: PermitRootLogin without-password actually does the same as PermitRootLogin yes

[Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org>]

On 24/09/2004 Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> >if i use
> >UsePAM no
> >
> >even normal user pam logins don't work any longer.
> >
> >that's not what i want.
> 
> well, you can enable PAM, but you then need to disable ChallengeResponse Authentifiaction (enabled by default).
> This will prevent root logins with password when 'without-password' is set.
> Keep in mind that in this case passwords will go encrypted over the net.

yes, that works, as well as UsePAM no and PasswordAuthentication yes
works. but it should be documented somewhere.

bye
 jonas