Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:39:37 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "W. D." <WD@us-webmasters.com> Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <200710221739.38062.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org>
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On Monday 22 October 2007, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! If you really want that to work you need to put 'PermitRootLogin yes' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Normally you would want to add your normal user to group wheel. Then when you want root from a remote machine, log in as normal and then run su(1). Regards, Pieter de Goeje
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