Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Ubuntu Server 14.04 - Enable SSH root access

Be default, Ubuntu does not allow to access ssh through root user. To do this, following steps:

Step 1: set password for root user. See details at Change root user password

Step 2: edit file "/etc/ssh/sshd_config"

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vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Step 3: comment and add new line like this
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#PermitRootLogin without-password
PermitRootLogin yes

Step 4: restart SSH
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service ssh restart

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