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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:21:37 +0100
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Am 02.02.2005 um 12:16 schrieb Gert Cuykens:

> Why does it not accept my password ?
>
> I# ssh root@localhost
>

Hi Gert,

if you really need that (this is disabled for security reasons), you 
need to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the following line so it 
is no longer commented out and says "Yes" instead:

PermitRootLogin yes

Hope that helps

Stephan