From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 15: 2:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6105D37B9F9 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10326; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:02:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003202302.PAA10326@ptavv.es.net> To: "Doug Poland" Cc: "Srikanth Kumar" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't remote login as root In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:09:11 CST." Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:02:27 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Doug Poland" > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:09:11 -0600 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > Hi, > > > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD BSD001 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Mar 8 08:15:32 > > EST 2000 root@BSD001:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERN_T1_QUAD i386 > > > > I am unable to login to the Free BSD machine from a remote terminal, as > > root. > > I have been logging in as another user, and doing an su, to get root > > access. > > Can you help me out from this situation? > > I don't have the file /var/run/nologin present. > > /etc/login.access, is the default from the installation, as are the > > other files that login looks > > at. > > Thank you very much for your kind attention to this matter. > > Regards, > > Sri Kumar. > > > > I believe this is a security feature of the OS. I've heard you > can use SSH with a root login. Only if you modify /usr/local/etc/sshd_config to allow it. PermitRootLogin yes R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message