Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 17:29:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh + su problem Message-ID: <slrnlomong.1vn.varro@anukis.local> References: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local> <op.xgqvd7cvg7njmm@michael-think>
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Michael Ross wrote: > 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? No - plain printable ASCII. -- Will
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