Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host I have what seems like an unusual problem with root login on this host.
I've done the normal things one does to allow root login; that is, add PermitRootLogin yes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config Restart ssh, and in fact this host has been rebooted a few times since adding that Permit line. I set sudo up to work with no passwd for a certain user long ago and so I was able to redo root passwd just to make sure there wasn't some error there. Still, I cannot login as root user I don't mean at the main login screen one gets on bootup, but from an xterm in a running session. Of course, checked to see if Caps lock was on... I've checked output of ssh -vvv root@localhost, and see nothing very exciting.. just asking for password and rejecting it repeatedly: debug1: Next authentication method: password root@localhost's password: debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password Permission denied, please try again. This password has been in use for many years on vm hosts behind firewall etc etc. So, there is literally NO chance I'm just getting it wrong. Not to mention as I said above that I redid the passwd in this most recent attempt to get it working. I'm fresh out of ideas as to what else to do here. The auth log shows: Jun 11 14:50:55 d2 sshd[2830]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=d.local.lan user=root Jun 11 14:50:57 d2 sshd[2830]: Failed password for root from 127.0.0.1 port 54522 ssh2
