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Try first to login as a user who is member of group wheel and then 'su'.
See if that works, root login is mostly disabled for security reasons.

Maarten

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:53 -0600, cartman_step1@spymac.com wrote:
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> On Wed Jul 27  7:49 , Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> sent:
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> >cartman_step1@spymac.com> writes:
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> >> Just i have a question about ssh and pam .
> >> Trying to login on a machine with freebsd 5.4 from a machine in where i run
> >> fedora core 4 , i can't complete the operation . 
> >> The error is sshd[449] pam authentication error . What does it mean?How i can set
> >> pam to permit to login to freebsd and control the machine remotely?
> >> I'm new to freebsd and i appreciate if anyone can help me to solve the problem . 
> >
> >Are you logging in as root?  That's disabled by default.
> >What kind of authentication are you using?
> >_______________________________________________
> yes i'm logging in as root , now i have understand , cause i can log in as a
> normal user . But then it's possible to log in as root , so i can administrate
> remotely the machine on the lan?
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