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root login on ssh

I have been using ssh service with Slackware, Suse and FC and the root login was working perfectly. Now I installed to an old machine FreeBSD and I want to use ssh to that as well. The normal user login works but not the root one. The error I get is:

Code:

sshd[503] : error: PAM: authentication error for root xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

And after promting again to enter the password I get the following line:

Code:

Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

The password I enter is the right one for sure as I'm using it to login as root to the system.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Many distros and other OSes disable the root account from being able to ssh or be accessed via ssh. The normal thing to do is ssh as a normal user and then su to witch to root. Is this what you are doing?

Check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config to see if it say RootLogin no. You really shouldn't do a remote log in as root.

NOTE: The place where FreeBSD keep the ssh files maybe different.

Use sudo if you must access remote as root.
Config your sudoers file. /usr/local/etc/sudoers

You can give a user root privledges, however you want.