HOWTO--> Enable Direct Password Prompted Access to Root via Tectia SSH

HOWTO: Enable Direct Password Prompted Access to Root via Tectia SSH

N.B. The following procedure does NOT require a reboot to take effect!

1.       Open /etc/ssh2/ssh-server-config.xml file for edit.

2.      Comment-out the following stanza (using comment tags <-- before and --> after each line): -

<!-- authentication action="allow" name="root-publickey" -->

<!-- selector -->

<!-- user name="root" / -->

<!-- /selector -->

<!-- auth-publickey / -->

<!-- /authentication -->

3.      Execute the following command to reload for Tectia SSH: -

/etc/init.d/ssh-server-g3 reload

N.B. Under ITSec Standards for AIX UNIX, direct root password prompted access to root user via Tectia SSH is not permitted. Any direct access to root user from other systems should be via public-private key pairs. The point of this howto is merely to provide a workaround for Gold Build engineering purposes, but should be reversed prior to handover.