Bug 2022466

Summary: sshd does not permits to ssh as root by default
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Carlos Santos <casantos>
Component: opensshAssignee: Dmitry Belyavskiy <dbelyavs>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 9.0CC: jjelen
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Description Carlos Santos 2021-11-11 17:37:31 UTC 
Description of problem:

The default sshd configuration does not permits to ssh as root by default, as it
did in previous releases.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

openssh-server-8.6p1-7.el9.1.x86_64

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL-9
2. Try to ssh as root

Actual results:

ssh as root is denied

Expected results:

ssh as root should be allowed

Additional info:

I understand that the change is a security improvement but it should be
documented in the release notes.
Comment 1 Carlos Santos 2021-11-11 18:06:41 UTC 
OK, it's documented in the Considerations in adopting RHEL 9 document.

    https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9-beta/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_9/index#ref_installer-installer-and-image-creation_assembly_installer-and-image-creation
Comment 2 Dmitry Belyavskiy 2021-11-11 18:22:20 UTC 
It's a desired behavior. You could enable root login editing the sshd_config file.