From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 22:16:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38F216A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:16:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607C943D1D for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:16:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 24401 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2005 22:16:47 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Jun 2005 22:16:47 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id DA8CB30; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:16:46 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Steven Friedrich References: <200506011449.45455.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <429E0B57.2070701@scls.lib.wi.us> <20050601203839.GH21127@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> <200506011757.57097.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Jun 2005 18:16:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200506011757.57097.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> Message-ID: <44ll5t90z5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nathan Kinkade , Greg Barniskis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Rick Preston Subject: Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:16:48 -0000 Steven Friedrich writes: > What I did notice though, is that I can't login as root using ssh. I haven't > found this mentioned in the man pages. > > Anybody know where it's documented, whether it can be changed, and would that > be a colossal mistake? Try the sshd_config(5) manual. > I mean, hey, it's a secure shell, why can't I login as root? Accountability. > The reason I want to use root is because I'm trying to scp /etc/master.passwd > from each of my four machines so I can write them to a CD for backup. You can do that without allowing root to get a shell from a remote system. Again, see the manual for the options available. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/