Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:02:24 +0100 From: "Jeffrey Belles" <jaffa@fabfive.nl> To: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH woes Message-ID: <20070202135926.M9408@fabfive.nl> In-Reply-To: <d85a51ff0702020507p14a8a91eye93e34fef9a156c6@mail.gmail.com> References: <d85a51ff0702020507p14a8a91eye93e34fef9a156c6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:37:14 +0530, Arindam wrote > I have a Pentium III 733 Mhz box with 512 MB RAM running FreeBSD 6.1. > I also have a second box with Fedora Core 2. I tried connecting to my > FreeBSD box using ssh from my Fedora Core 2 machine. > > # ssh -l root <myFreeBSD box> > 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. > > Where am I going wrong. By default ssh-ing to root is denied for security-reasons Try login in with a normal account and do a 'su -' to act as root. If you really really really want to allow root-logins through ssh, edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and remove the hash from the following line: #PermitRootLogin yes HTH -Jeffrey > -- Arindam > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
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