hi (sry for my bad english)

iam trying to start a server on my debian 5.0 linux computer...

and want to give a friend ssh access... every time he is trying to login as root it says that the password is wrong. but iam giving him the root password i have entered while installing debian...

how can i fix the problem i allready installed it 5 times and every time its the same problem...

also tried to change it via passwd an every time iam typing su it switches to computername: ediik-linux-computer:/ and nnot to root

also tryed to switch it via account management in gnome... if iam typing a new password for root i can switch in terminal via su an then there stands root@ediik-linux-computer:/ but i cant login on ssh or sftp...

iam using winscp... my friend 2 iopened port 22 and it is all working but only if i login with my normal account... not with root...

im pulling with this for 3 days can anyone help me pls?

uncomment this line in you sshd configuration file.
#PermitRootLogin yes

and the problem wth the root password is it normal? thati cant login as root if im local on my pc...

Don't allow root access using SSH. Better to login as normal user and su to root.

You usually can not login into the graphical environment as root, but a console should be possible; exception is (at least) Ubuntu that has the root account disabled by default.

I believe that in Debian, the root account is not disabled by default, but SSH access to root is. It's a pretty standard lockdown procedure that a lot of sysadmins (or at least most of the ones I know) do to help curb brute force attacks.

You can either do as PMP said and permit root logins (which I wouldn't recommend) or you can create a user account for your friend and allow him to su/sudo up to root once logged in.