Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:33:21 +0200 From: Federico Lorenzi <florenzi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "W. D." <WD@us-webmasters.com>, Johan Hendriks <Johan@double-l.nl> Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <200710221933.22465.florenzi@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB19BE0D@w2003s01.double-l.local> References: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB19BE0D@w2003s01.double-l.local>
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On Monday 22 October 2007 3:00:56 pm Johan Hendriks 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? > > > >Thanks! > > You cannot login directly with root over ssh > > You will need to create a user and place that user in the wheel group. > Then login with that user and do a su - to become root. Well... Technically you can login as root directly over SSH, however this is far from recommended. Just look in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file if this is what you really want, and you should be able to figure it out. Hint: Search for 'root' HTH Federico
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