If you BBB is exposed to the internet, you should very seriously learn how to use sudo, and lock your root account.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:47 PM, cagri yilmaz <[email protected] > wrote: > Thanks William. > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:43 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> $ sudo passwd root //creates a passwd for root. >> $ sudo passwd -u root // Unlocks the root account. >> >> https://www.google.com/#q=Ubuntu+enable+root -> >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/44418/how-to-enable-root-login >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:03 AM, cagri yilmaz < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Robert; >>> I did: >>> 1. After logged on user name ubuntu and password as temppwd >>> 2. sudo su entering the password as temppwd >>> 3. passwd <new password> twice. >>> >>> After that I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config >>> >>> >>> I added >>> PermitRootLogin yes >>> Restarted the service. >>> >>> I did it at 13.04 like that and it used to work. >>> Anyway I will try to create the user called root. >>> >>> Thank you very much for your support. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> Cagri Yilmaz >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:39 AM, cagri yilmaz >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Dear All; >>>> > Is there anybody knows the reason of not to be able to connect to >>>> Ubuntu >>>> > 14.04 as ROOT via SSH (Putty) running on BeagleBone Black? >>>> > I did it at 13.04 and I can connect as root with root password. >>>> However I >>>> > cannot manage it in 14.04. >>>> > How can I enable it at 14.04? >>>> >>>> Did you create a root user? >>>> Did you enable the new openssh-server permission that disables root >>>> access over ssh? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Robert Nelson >>>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/_PTac7vbLKY/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/_PTac7vbLKY/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
