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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:32:03 -0500
From:      "Jeff Nelson" <gravity@bigmak.org>
To:        "Ken Seggerman" <suleyman@echonyc.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: OpenSSH on 4.1 CR won't accept root's password
Message-ID:  <IKEAKCNLIMONAMGJIAMCAEBKCAAA.gravity@bigmak.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007200040410.26262-100000@echonyc.com>

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Crap! Sorry about the f'ed up posts.

OpenSSH denies root logins by default, check your /usr/local/etc/sshd.conf
file for the proper configuration options if you MUST login as root. Try to
just su after logging in as a normal user, or better yet, look into using
sudo.
-Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ken Seggerman
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:56 PM
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: OpenSSH on 4.1 CR won't accept root's password


Greetings:

I have FreeBSD 4.1-CR running on two machines. I have enabled sshd on both
of them, generated keys and connected back and forth as an ordinary user
using ssh from the command line.

However when I do the same for root, ssh just won't accept the password
for root, even though it accpets my ordinary-user password.

I've read the man pages and don't see why it is doing this.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

A tutorial or how-to for ssh (in more detail than the how-to for
committers) would be great, if anyone knows of one.


Thanks,

Ken Seggerman

ken_seggerman@suleyman.com




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