SSH connexion problem

Rocky Linux Help & Support
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Hello

I currently have a problem on Rocky 9.1,
I have 2 accounts on a machine the root account and the toto account, if I change the password of the root account I reboot the machine and I try to connect in ssh to the latter via the root account I am in Access Denied on the other hand if I connect with the toto account to the latter I can connect and by connecting it gives me access again in ssh connection with the root account and vice versa if I change the password of the toto account.
I’m running out of ideas that’s why I’m asking for your help.

Cordially

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Password access for root account is disabled by default. You would need to enable in /etc/ssh/sshd_config the option:

PermitRootLogin yes

the option by default only allows SSH keys to be used, therefore password logins will fail until this is changed.

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Sorry for not precise this but in my case the root account is allow to connect by ssh with the lign you send

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Can I rephrase?

  1. You have accounts X and Y on machine S
  2. You change password of X on S
  3. Reboot S
  4. You can’t ssh to X@S from client machine C
  5. You can ssh to Y@S from client machine C
  6. After step 5 you can ssh to X@S from client machine C

Is that what happens?

If you reboot again, then does it again require ssh to Y@S once before you can ssh to X@S?

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Yes exactly you summed it up well, it’s actually clearer like that.
Yes I tested other reboot and that does not change the problem, I also tried to type the old password of the root account but that does not work either.

For information the root account is configured so that the password never expires