On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 02:21 -0500, 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! Root logins via ssh are disabled by default. Change this in /etc/ssh/<whichever ssh config file it is> OR you could alternately decide that root logins are *the spawn of satan's loins* via ssh, and do something different. Specifically, if you add your local user account to the wheel group then you can su to root. vi /etc/groups Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD historians here - you'd be welcome to let us know!) Tada! If you need root logins for something like a running process that wants to communicate via several computers as root, then I assume that: a) your program's broken ;) b) you wouldn't be using putty. So just add yourself to wheel and let the good times roll. James _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"