Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:42:44 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <20071022174243.GA96030@brick.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org>
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--/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. >=20 > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication.=20 >=20 > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX=20 >=20 > Any ideas? Default behaviour in FreeBSD is for SSH to disallow root login. You can change that in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but it's probably not a=20 good idea. The sshd_config man page will tell you how, if you really=20 want to. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHHOETixf5fBYiFmoRAvl8AKCuMRrMZylF+SxzJO6UQfc8qDx4NACfcaAX eJM9enEveq4fpBn36eH1XSo= =DBXx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--
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