On Monday 05 January 2004 08:46 pm, George P. Stathis wrote: > Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake 9.2. > I have just installed the sshd server that came with > the installation disks. > > My sshd service is running fine but I'm unable to > login to localhost with the root password. I get:
You might want to check your sshd server settings. In the /etc/ssh directory should be a sshd_config file that has your ssh server configuration settings. On mine in particular are lines: DenyUsers root ftp ..... AllowUsers blah,blah.... These specify that only particular users are allowed to login via ssh and specific users are disallowed from logging in via ssh, including root. It is a VERY bad idea to allow root to login via ssh since that account is well known by all and sundry and someone can effectively use that account to try to dictionary attack your machine to get access. At least with a user login, the person must guess/know the username and then try to brute force the password. Just another layer of protection and no reason to allow root direct login, you can login as a user and su to root to issue commands. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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