On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:46:41PM +0200, Daniel Geske wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a FreeBSD 4.5 Rel. machine up running fine. Now, on the console I
> can log in fine. Log ins via ssh only work for users other than root. How
> can I log in as root using ssh?
> I checked "hosts.allow" and it didn't look like there's any place to set
> such thing in "sshd_config"
>
> I am looking forward to hearing a solution.
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
>
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I,
You can use option `PermitRootLogin yes' in your sshd_config but it
may have some impact in machine security.
You can login as a normal user and then "su -" or, better, "sudo
<command>".
Bye,
Nuno Teixeira
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