On Monday 22 October 2007 3:00:56 pm Johan Hendriks 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 cannot login directly with root over ssh > > You will need to create a user and place that user in the wheel group. > Then login with that user and do a su - to become root. Well... Technically you can login as root directly over SSH, however this is far from recommended. Just look in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file if this is what you really want, and you should be able to figure it out. Hint: Search for 'root'
HTH Federico _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
