SSH Login Fails After Disabling PAM by "UsePAM no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (Doc ID 2620456.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 20, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 and later
Linux x86-64

After changing the default configuration "UsePAM yes" to "UsePAM no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, ssh connections fail with:

server refused our key

Change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

UsePAM no

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