Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:42:44 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <20071022174243.GA96030@brick.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, 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
>
> Any ideas?
Default behaviour in FreeBSD is for SSH to disallow root login.
You can change that in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but it's probably not a
good idea. The sshd_config man page will tell you how, if you really
want to.
Dan
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