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Raghav Gupta
Asked: 2022-01-20 02:49:23 +0800 CST

Failing SSH after disabling Root Login

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After generating the private and public key for a RHEL Client and storing the public key in the authorized_keys folder of the RHEL 7 Server, I disabled the Root Login in the Server by going to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and setting PermitRootLogin to no. After that I restarted the sshd service.

Now when I am trying to do ssh from client to server it says

Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password)

Why I am getting this message?

linux redhat ssh rhel7 public-key-encryption

1 Answers

  1. Your behavior is completely normal. Change your PermitRootLogin no to a more conform to your needs PermitRootLogin without-password

    Be sure to have the right key at the right place (usually ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) with the good owner:group, and with the chmod 600 and 700 on ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and ~/.ssh.

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