Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:23:26 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH Message-ID: <471CC06E.3030800@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <20071022074758.5131513C4A5@mx1.freebsd.org>
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W. D. wrote: > Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2. Can't log in with PuTTY. > > Remote PuTTY: > Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. > > At computer terminal: > PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > > You are probably trying to login as root via ssh. This is not recommended and is disabled by default. If you really want to change this, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_login, uncomment the line PermitRootLogin No and change it to Yes. Better still, create a normal user account, add it to the wheel group and use it to ssh to the machine then, use su when needed.
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