Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:00:56 +0200 From: "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB19BE0D@w2003s01.double-l.local> References: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org>
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>Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. >Remote PuTTY: >Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication.=20 >At computer terminal: >PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX=20 >Any ideas? >Thanks! You cannot login directly with root over ssh You will need to create a user and place that user in the wheel group. Then login with that user and do a su - to become root. Regards, Johan
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