On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 04:13:16PM -0400, Cimarron Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'd like to be able to ssh to root on my local machine.
Why? Why not ssh as a user and then su(1)?
> I've created a key pair for the user, and I've copied the user's public key
> into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. But whenever I try to "ssh -l root
> localhost", I'm asked for the root password (not the passphrase for the key,
> the actual root passsword on the machine).
Run ssh with "-v" flag to see why it does not want to do RSA. Also
make sure you have "PermitRootLogin yes" and "RSAAuthentication yes" in
your sshd_config file.
> As I understand it, sshd defaults to allow root to login with ssh. Anyone
> know what could be going wrong?
I am puzzled as to why would anyone want to ssh in as root ;)
-- Yan
--
"My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite
unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC
environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box,
that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways,
embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go." - Ken Thompson
