Root login Blocked

[LovelyNetworks]

I followed the tutorial from: http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=30159

And i also changed permitrootlogin to no

Note 1: If you would like to disable direct Root Login, scroll down until you find

#PermitRootLogin yes

and uncomment it and make it look like

PermitRootLogin no

I thought it was somthing else. Well, now i can't login through root. I can't telnet aswell. Is there any other way to enable root login again?
Please Help

 

[webignition]

Did you create a user that can su to root?

If not, your only option would probably to contact your data centre and ask them to change back the relevant settings.

 

[dgbaker]

You should be able to still log into WHM from there you can add a user to the wheel group and then you should be able to login with that user and SU to root.

 

[chris74108]

Unless you changed something you can probably just login as a regular user and type
su - enter
then when prompted rootpass

The wheel restriction only works if you change
/etc/pam.d/su

by uncommenting (remove the #)
#auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_wheel.so use_uid
to
auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_wheel.so use_uid

If by some chance you did make this change then dgbaker is right on.

 

[LovelyNetworks]

Thanks guys.
I added regular user to wheel group. Then i logged in to ssh with that user and su to root.
Should i always login to root through su or change sshd_config to allow permitrootlogin.
Which is more Safer?

 

[chris74108]

Thanks guys.
I added regular user to wheel group. Then i logged in to ssh with that user and su to root.
Should i always login to root through su or change sshd_config to allow permitrootlogin.
Which is more Safer?

su -
to root and disable root logins

 

[jayh38]

Also change your ssh port to something other than 22

 

[LovelyNetworks]

I also have changed ssh port.

Thanks everyone who helped.

 

[Rogers]

I have a similar problem. I set up SSH to only listen on a certain IP address. Last night my host changed my IP address and now I can't log in via SSH. How can I get to the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to update the IP? Is there some way I can temporarily enable telnet or FTP for root access? Thanks.

 

[jayh38]

You can set your ssh config to default with this link. Provide your current IP address of course. Once you authenticate, your ssh config will reset to default.

http://11.22.33.44:2086/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart

Click the link first then edit the address in your url bar of the browser

 

[Rogers]

Thank you!! So easy when you know how...

I ran "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart" after I edited the sshd_config file which I guess then re-starts SSH with the new settings.

 

[jayh38]

Correct, each time you start / restart a service, its current config file is loaded.

glad you got it going