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for security reasons, remote root logins are a bad thing.
log in as yourself, then su to root.
make sure you are a member of the 'wheel' group.

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John Brooks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Arnold
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:51 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Remote server warnings
> 
> 
> John Brooks wrote:
> > might be good to make sure you can actually ssh into the box
> > before you move it,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.
> 
> I've done this - in fact, I'm updateing to 4.10 as we speak via SSH
> with my box still local.
> 
> > make sure root logins are not permitted in sshd_config,
> 
> If I do this, how do I do root stuff? Login as myself and use su?
> 
> > make sure the daily reports will be emailed to you
> 
> Ahh, good idea.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
> Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
>      http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/
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