Did you restart the sshd service? Corey n3fe Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 21, 2018, at 11:36 AM, "lengriff@optimum.net" <lengriff@optimum.net> wrote:
I have added a password for root login, and in sshd_config changed to PermitRootLogin yes. I can login as root locally with the correct password, but WinSCP says ' access denied '. The auth.log shows: sshd[1643]: Pam_Unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 TTY=ssh ruser= rhost=192.168.39.121 user=root
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