Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:55:54 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net Message-ID: <20011102095554.A38169@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <00b501c1637b$1cd2f880$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15330.23714.263323.466739@guru.mired.org> <00b501c1637b$1cd2f880$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:48:13AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Mike writes: > > Everyone is going to tell you to kill telnetd > > - and they are probably right, as sshd lets > > you do all that. > > Except that sshd isn't letting me log in as root. When I try that, it says: > "Sorry, you are not allowed to connect." But I changed the remotes to secure in > ttys, and I put the PermitRootLogin to "yes" in sshd_config. What else do I > have to do? SSH works for other accounts. You should not log in directly as root. What you should do is login as a normal user and then use 'su' to become root. This requires that the user you login as is in the 'wheel' group. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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