Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 06:28:05 +0100 From: Dave <davemorgan353@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh + su problem Message-ID: <ebf33350-4c49-4836-8358-7336942fb497@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <op.xgqvd7cvg7njmm@michael-think> References: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local> <op.xgqvd7cvg7njmm@michael-think>
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On 31 May 2014 22:59:57 BST, Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx> 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? > > >Michael >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" There's no need to allow root login. You can revert that to "no". -- Dave GPG/PGP ID: CDB94DA1 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 1 08:38:07 2014 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88EFF260 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 08:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from the-host.seacom.mu (ge-0.ln-01-jnb.za.seacomnet.com [41.87.104.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B46D4254D for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 08:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=the-host.localnet) by the-host.seacom.mu with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>) id 1WqyeI-00087N-7t; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:49:38 +0200 From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Reply-To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu Organization: SEACOM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, tyler@tysdomain.com Subject: Re: ssh + su problem Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 07:49:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37.6-24-desktop; KDE/4.6.0; i686; ; ) References: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local> <538A3B95.9010605@tysdomain.com> In-Reply-To: <538A3B95.9010605@tysdomain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1554328.yaP6cGkxka"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201406010749.37505.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Cc: gyliamos@gmail.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 08:38:07 -0000 --nextPart1554328.yaP6cGkxka Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:29:09 PM Littlefield, Tyler=20 wrote: > 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. I get this all the time regardless of whether the client is=20 on Windows or UNIX/Linux. I've never had the time to look=20 into it, perhaps I should, some day. My solution - sudo.=20 "sudo su" will allow you to login as root remotely. 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