From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 14:41: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF3E37C1FA for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:41:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA28802; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007202140.OAA28802@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: OpenSSH on 4.1 CR won't accept root's password In-Reply-To: from Ken Seggerman at "Jul 20, 2000 00:55:35 am" To: Ken Seggerman Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 Look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. By default root logins aren't allowed. You need to tweak the config file in order to enable them. See the sshd(8) manpage for more info. -- John Baldwin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message