On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 01:38:52AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: > Direct root login is disabled by default. are you able to login from your > 10.11.12.104 as a non root user? What client software are you using on your > 10.11.12.104 for logging on to your freebsd?
Correction: Direct root login via SSH is disabled by default. If you need root access, you should use a staff account in the wheel group to remotely log into the machine, then su to root. You should, however, be able to log in as root from a TTY console for local access. The fact that remote direct root login is disabled is a security feature, meant to prevent things like brute-force attacks on root over the network. It's a bad idea to change that behavior, in general. Back when I was using Debian for all my servers, I would configure sshd to disable direct root login -- and was pleased to find that on FreeBSD it's disabled by default, once I started using FreeBSD for all my servers. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error."
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