I want to leave the root user enabled on my servers for convenience, and the only reason people are against the idea (that I know of) is brute-force attacks on SSH.
So, is there is a way in SSH to enable password access for all users except root, but allow ssh-key access for root?
OS: Ubuntu Server Edition 10.04 x86
SSH Version: OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu7, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
Answer
From the sshd_config(5)
man page:
PermitRootLogin
...
If this option is set to “without-password”, password authentica-
tion is disabled for root.
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