There is an updated pull request by Piraty against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/Piraty/void-packages openssh-root-login https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/17596 openssh: restore upstream's default for PermitRootLogin restore upstream's default for PermitRootLogin, which currently is 'prohibt-password'. Should be discussed in conjunction with https://github.com/void-linux/void-mklive/pull/100. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/17596.patch is attached