From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 14:31:08 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 6872816A401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:31:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaffa@fabfive.nl) Received: from homeserv0.fabfive.nl (homeserv0.fabfive.nl [193.79.178.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A0413C4B9 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:31:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaffa@fabfive.nl) Received: from mail.zenity.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homeserv0.fabfive.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l12E2Ono093920; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:02:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jaffa@fabfive.nl) From: "Jeffrey Belles" To: Arindam , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:02:24 +0100 Message-Id: <20070202135926.M9408@fabfive.nl> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502 X-OriginatingIP: 194.203.215.254 (jbelles) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: 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 14:31:08 -0000 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 > 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)