How to Enable Root Sign-in to Provider Console

To successfully become a provider, root login need to have been enabled on your machine. Below is a guide on how to successfuly do that, if it has not yet been enabled.

Prerequisite Step: Configure your Server:

This assumes you are using Linux.

Edit Your SSHD Configuration

First of all, you should edit your sshd configuration /etc/ssh/sshd_config to update specific perimeters for enhanced security.

1. Switch to the root user to ensure you have you have the necessary permissions:

sudo -i

2. Open the configuration file with a text editor:

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

3. Locate the following lines in the file. If they are commented out (prefixed with #), remove the # to uncomment them:

PermitRootLogin prohibit-password
PubkeyAuthentication yes

4. Update the PasswordAuthentication parameter. Uncomment it, and change its value to no if it is currently set to yes:

 PasswordAuthentication no

5. Save and close the file:

   • If using nano, press CTRL+O to save and CTRL+X to exit.

6. Edit the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file:

nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

7. Ensure the file contains the following lines:

no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,command="echo 'Please login as the user "admin" rather than the user "root".';echo;sleep 10;exit 142" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCTBuQzRQor39mU++RthyjUheuWj1Ph+lyyQwwp5t5AgfvXjM2SuQNFyEedIAkOd8/fuv/ejKrtP85TurF1fdAiixj/N5N+nW+GgJO9s/W6......

8. Comment the first line, and then find ssh-rsa, and hit the enter (or return) key to take it to a new line. It should now look like this:

 #no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,command="echo 'Please login as the user "admin" rather than the user "root".';echo;sleep 10;exit 142"
 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCTBuQzRQor39mU++RthyjUheuWj1Ph+lyyQwwp5t5AgfvXjM2SuQNFyEedIAkOd8/fuv/ejKrtP85TurF1fdAiixj/N5N+nW+GgJO9s/W6......

9. Restart the SSH service to apply the changes:

sudo systemctl restart ssh

NB: If you get an error message, try sudo systemctl restart sshd.

10. To ensure the changes have been applied, check the current SSHD configuration:

sudo sshd -T | grep -E 'permitrootlogin|pubkeyauthentication|passwordauthentication'

If you did everything correctly, the output should display:

permitrootlogin prohibit-password
 pubkeyauthentication yes
 passwordauthentication no

11. Finally, make sure you open the following ports:

2379-2380, 6443, 30000,32676, 22, 8443, 8444, 80, 443.

You are now ready to create a provider.