Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:58:26 -0500 From: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> To: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OpenSSH Message-ID: <3A59F1B1.6205B8DB@optonline.net> References: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B1045980F@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>
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Made sense. I left it as it is, and created a user account, now all seems
well. My first step to encryption, hahahahaha
"Hudson, Henrik H." wrote:
> Hey Trinio-
>
> By defaullt, root logins via ssh are not allowed. If you wish to enable root
> logins via ssh edit the file
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the line PermitRootLogin no to
> PermitRootLogin yes
>
> I would recommend leaving this as no, creating a user account and su 'ing to
> root when you need too, but that's just me.
>
> Henrik
>
> ---
> Henrik Hudson
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of trini0
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 08:38
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: OpenSSH
>
> Im new to ssh, so not knowing that Openssh was part of the base, I
> installed it from the ports. It compiled cleanly, and I tried to ssh to
> the machine it was running on. When it came to the password, I entered
> root's password, and it said password denied. I tried another and got
> the same result. I tried another ssh to another box that I installed
> ssh on, same result. I figured out that openssh was part of the base so
> I uninstalled openssh and restarted the daemon. I got an error stating
> the the RSA key was changed. So I deleted /root/.ssh/known_hosts, and I
> came upon entering the password, and Im still having problems like how I
> described above. I looked through the list and didn't come across
> anything. What is been done wrong. Thanks
>
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