From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 14:08:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D2816A406 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:08:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cknipe@savage.za.org) Received: from www16b.your-server.co.za (www16b.your-server.co.za [196.22.132.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A813113C4A6 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cknipe@savage.za.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by www16b.your-server.co.za with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HCydp-00010W-PJ; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:39:49 +0200 Received: from 196.207.40.213 ([196.207.40.213]) by default.your-server.co.za (IMP) with HTTP for ; Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:39:49 +0200 Message-ID: <1170423589.45c33f25912a7@196.22.132.16> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:39:49 +0200 From: cknipe@savage.za.org To: Arindam References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 196.207.40.213 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:08:38 -0000 > # ssh -l root > Password: > Password: > Password: > > It kept asking me for Password: although everytime I put the correct > value. I tried out clearing the .ssh* files in my home directories and > trying to reconnect. None of it worked. Don't login as root... It's not good practise, SSH on BSD by default does also not allow for it. Add your normal user to the wheel group, use that to login via SSH, and use su or sudo to gain root privlidges when needed