SSH root login failure

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  • March 16, 2019 at 3:07 am #19466
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      Hello,
      please help!

      What magic to put in a conf file to allow root password login with SSH?

      antiX-16_x64-base Berta Cáceres

      /var/log/auth.log:
alpha sshd[2230]: Address 192.168.0.10 maps to alpha, but this does not map back to the address - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
alpha sshd[2230]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=192.168.0.10  user=root
alpha sshd[2230]: Failed password for root from 192.168.0.10 port 50075 ssh2
alpha sshd[4465]: Address 192.168.0.10 maps to alpha, but this does not map back to the address - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
alpha sshd[4465]: Accepted password for user from 192.168.0.10 port 50194 ssh2
      March 16, 2019 at 12:07 pm #19479
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        please read, then choose an alternative authentication method
        mitigating-ssh-based-attacks-top-15-best-security-practices

        March 18, 2019 at 12:37 pm #19533
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          So the magic is:

          /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
PermitRootLogin [without-password => yes]

          🙂

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