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Date:      Thu, 29 May 2008 10:51:45 +0200
From:      Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Renaming "root" to "homer"?
Message-ID:  <9irs34l6dbdpttkvlo23mpd0qbmvh7l1vk@4ax.com>
References:  <dsqs34tisuf7ajugi7ek1ni7bcd4hba58n@4ax.com> <200805291048.28277.pieter@degoeje.nl>

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On Thu, 29 May 2008 10:48:27 +0200, Pieter de Goeje
<pieter@degoeje.nl> wrote:
>Unless you have explicitly set PermitRootLogin to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, 
>it is not possible to login as root using ssh. 

Right. I did this because I was tired of having to log on as homer and
then sudo'ing to root, using two complicated passwords :-/

I guess I should learn how to use public/private keys instead.




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