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Unable to migrate to Plesk for Linux from AWS: please login as the user “centos” rather than the user “root”

Plesk migrator is unable to connect with source AWS Linux server with the following message:
```
Please login as the user “centos” rather than the user “root”
```

Root login over ssh is not permitted on the source server.

Backup /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file:
# cp /root/.ssh/authorized_keys /root/.ssh/authorized_keys_backedup

Open file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys in a text editor, in this example we’re using vi editor.
# vi /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
Delete all text before “ssh rsa” and save the file.
Open file /etc/ssh/sshd_config in a text editor.

# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Set ‘PermitRootLogin’ and ‘PasswordAuthentication’ parameters to ‘yes’.
# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | egrep “PasswordAuthentication|PermitRootLogin”
PasswordAuthentication yes
PermitRootLogin yes
Restart SSHD service:
# systemctl restart sshd.service
Redo the migration.