[SOLVED] opensuse13.1 unable to ssh in as root after reboot

jzoudavy · 08-21-2014, 08:55 PM

Hi all

Disclaimer: I do know why allowing ssh as root is bad idea. Thank you. This is just something weird that I noticed.

I noticed something weird with my opensuse 13.1 VM. I would set /etc/ssh/sshd_config's PermitRootLogin to yes, restart sshd, and I can ssh in as root.

But once I reboot the VM, I can no longer ssh in as root. I have to go to the console, restart sshd again, and then I can ssh in as root. Can someone explain to me why that is?

Thanks

EDDY1 · 08-21-2014, 09:00 PM

Have you checked to see if you can ssh as normal user?
If not you'll have to set it to run on startup.

EDDY1 · 08-21-2014, 09:02 PM

http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...arting-on-boot

suicidaleggroll · 08-21-2014, 09:30 PM

That is odd, and I don't have a good answer for you...it almost sounds like your /etc/ssh/sshd_config isn't being read correctly on boot. I'm assuming since this is a VM that you just have a single partition for "/"...do you have a more complicated partition setup? Are you seeing any errors in /var/log/messages? Do you have any errors ssh'ing into normal user accounts after a reboot, before you restart sshd?

jefro · 08-21-2014, 09:42 PM

Many distro's force you to ssh as a standard user. After connected then you can sudo.

jzoudavy · 08-21-2014, 09:53 PM

Hi all

The link Eddy posted was right:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthrea...arting-on-boot

TL;DR version:
sshd is not set to run at start up. Once I enabled sshd in System Services it worked.

thanks

allend · 08-21-2014, 09:54 PM

Perhaps a listening process is being maintained on the host machine.
After rebooting the VM, check for a stale listening process on the host with 'ps ax | grep ssh". If there is a stale process, kill it, then try the ssh to the VM.