From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 10:44:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DCF16A4CF for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:44:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A6143D2F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:44:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.120.219]) by out012.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040318184455.SLQI18295.out012.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:44:55 -0600 Message-ID: <4059ED99.9090906@mac.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:42:33 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Yoo, Gene" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out012.verizon.net from [68.161.120.219] at Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:44:55 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Root password not responding X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:44:56 -0000 Yoo, Gene wrote: > However, recently the root usner name and password, when entered > correctly or incorrectly, does not login. It gives me the message of > Incorrect password or usnername. Why has this suddenly started > occurring and how do I fix this? Change the line containing "PermitRootLogin" to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and restart sshd on that machine. It's better from the standpoint of security to always log in as a normal user and su (or run sudo), which is why root login via SSH is disabled by default. However, there are circumstances where logging in as root is convenient... -- -Chuck