I believe that you can no longer log in as root - you can use privilege escalation through pfexec for that or su once you login. Root logins are too insecure.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 16:33, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I've enabled remote root logins long ago.. and have had no problems > with it... but today... I started getting this message: > > Received disconnect from 192.168.0.29: 2: Too many authentication > failures for root > > Even when it is the absolute first attempt. > > I was't able to discern where this message comes from. I guess from > one of the ssh configs... but darned if I see it there. > > grep -rl 'Too many authentication' /etc didn't find it either. > > Looking at man sshd and man sshd_config... it appears my settings > should be working. > > Somehow the OS thinks there have been multiple attempts at root login > that failed... > > My logs show no such thing. At least `grep ssh /var/adm/messages' > gets no hits... would that sort of stuff be somewhere else? > > Anyone have a guess what might be the problem. > > I think if it were a bum setting in sshd_config the message, if any at > all, would not be what I am seeing. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro/Nashville, Tennessee USA _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
