Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 23:59:57 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Will Parsons" <varro@nodomain.invalid>, gyliamos@gmail.com Subject: Re: ssh + su problem Message-ID: <op.xgqvd7cvg7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local> References: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local>
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On Sat, 31 May 2014 21:42:23 +0200, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: > I have a problem in that I cannot su to root on a FreeBSD machine > remotely from a Windows machine. Note that the user I'm logging in as > *is* a member of the wheel group (and I can su locally just fine). > Symptoms are: > > % su > Password: > su: Sorry > % > > Although I *think* the purpose of the sshd option "PermitRootLogin" is > to (dis)allow *direct* root ssh logins, I changed it to "yes" anyway > in sshd_config, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. > > I'm inclined to think this a server-side configuration issue, since I > get the same result whether I use Cygwin ssh or PuTTY to log in > remotely to the FreeBSD machine. > > Any ideas of what might be wrong? > Maybe a character encoding issue, any "special" characters in your root password? Michael
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