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Cc: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: SSH woes
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> Don't login as root... It's not good practise, SSH on BSD by default does also
> not allow for it.  Add your normal user to the wheel group, use that to login

The top Linux distros screw up a bunch of the ssh_config(5) and 
sshd_config(5) defaults.

~BAS