From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 10:11:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-031-016-002.insight.rr.com [65.31.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D79D437B417 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:11:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 74167 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Dec 2001 18:11:19 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:11:19 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: Rakesh Prajapati Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cant remotely log in as ROOT Message-ID: <20011217131119.A74128@tharmas.rintrah.org> Mail-Followup-To: Rakesh Prajapati , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rprajapa@sdf.lonestar.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:00:52PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:00:52PM +0000, Rakesh Prajapati wrote: > Hi , > > > I am unable to login as ROOT remotely from my work to my Home pc which is > FreeBSD Release 4.2 > > > IS this a security feature or I must do some settings to change this > behaviour. > > > Thanks in Advance > Rakesh > > How are you trying to log in as root? Hopefully you are using ssh and not telnet. Even over ssh a better idea is to log in as yourself and then su as needed for root privileges. If, however, you really need root login, set PermitRootLogin yes in your sshd_config file (usually in /usr/local/etc). --devin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message