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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:08:41 -0400
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org>
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Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:38:35PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote:

> On 2007-10-22 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 
> >
> In /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
> PermitRootLogin yes

But, don't do that.   Do the normal user/su thing.

////jerry

> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bahman
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