On Tuesday 12 December 2000 04:27, Max Lock wrote: > Philipp Schulte wrote: > > root is not able to login from a remote host by default. > > You can change this in /etc/pam.d/login > > thanks Phil, I don't think I made myself clear, I perform "scp > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dir/file ." when logged in as root, and it fails. When > I'm logged in as a plain ol user it works. I'm ssh'ing as a user not > root.
Check the setting of PermitRootLogin in sshd_config on the target host? -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
