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Date:      Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:24:06 +0200
From:      Maarten Sanders <maarfree@xs4all.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sshd and pam
Message-ID:  <1122488646.4854.1.camel@maarten>
In-Reply-To: <20050727165310.DF8125C0040@webmail3.spymac.net>
References:  <20050727165310.DF8125C0040@webmail3.spymac.net>

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Try first to login as a user who is member of group wheel and then 'su'.
See if that works, root login is mostly disabled for security reasons.

Maarten

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:53 -0600, cartman_step1@spymac.com wrote:
> 
> On Wed Jul 27  7:49 , Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> sent:
> 
> >cartman_step1@spymac.com> writes:
> >
> >> Just i have a question about ssh and pam .
> >> Trying to login on a machine with freebsd 5.4 from a machine in where i run
> >> fedora core 4 , i can't complete the operation . 
> >> The error is sshd[449] pam authentication error . What does it mean?How i can set
> >> pam to permit to login to freebsd and control the machine remotely?
> >> I'm new to freebsd and i appreciate if anyone can help me to solve the problem . 
> >
> >Are you logging in as root?  That's disabled by default.
> >What kind of authentication are you using?
> >_______________________________________________
> yes i'm logging in as root , now i have understand , cause i can log in as a
> normal user . But then it's possible to log in as root , so i can administrate
> remotely the machine on the lan?
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