ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread David Schulz
You must specify to allow root in your sshd_config. noone will ever recommend that you do that though. On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Jeremy Gransden
On 3/10/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? Thanks and regards, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Thanks, Dima. On 3/10/07, Guido Demmenie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Default setting is that

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Boris Samorodov
period when you really need it. Anyway, you may do man sshd_config and /RootLogin to _read_ how to allow root login via ssh. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:43:43 +0200 Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? man pw (but

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread David Schulz
Hi, man pw here is a nice tutorial - http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/ beginners/manage_users_pw.php Bye, David On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel'

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 06:43 PM 3/10/2007 +0200, you wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Thanks, Dima. Easiest way? vi /etc/group man

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. I can miss something, but if I right, how do I allow it ? You can change the config file to allow it, but that is considered poor security. The thing to

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:43:43PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. Actually I would prefer to do it via su. Here a really newbie question: 1) How do I join regular user to 'wheel' group ? 2) How do I join a user to some group 'some_group' ?. Which manpage to read ? Just edit the /etc/group

Re: ssh login as root

2007-03-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. It _seems_ that FreeBSD does not allow root to login remotely via ssh. see /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change permitroot to yes ___