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SSH root not asks for password

Hi The issue is that when i connect with root through ssh, it just connect without asking for password. Below is the what i modified in the config file. Anyone?

Authentication: PermitRootLogin yes PasswordAuthentication yes

ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes

UsePAM no

X11Forwarding yes PrintMotd no

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alexdo
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• July 16, 2022

Hello there,

If you provided an SSH key when creating your DigitalOcean droplet, password authentication may have been automatically disabled.

On another note, if you have your ssh-key added to your droplet, the password authentication can be skipped due to the presence of the ssh-key pair.

If you’re using an ssh-client in your terminal you can add the -vvv to the ssh command, e.g - ssh -vvv user@DropletIp to get a more verbose output of how the connection was established.

Regards