Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:00:41PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Saturday 10 May 2008 20:50:46 Dennis Flynn wrote: I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 About a day after

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 01:38:52AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote: Direct root login is disabled by default. are you able to login from your 10.11.12.104 as a non root user? What client software are you using on your 10.11.12.104 for logging on to your freebsd? Correction: Direct root login via

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:50:46AM -0700, Dennis Flynn wrote: I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 About a day after install root login no longer works - even on the

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
need root access, you should use a staff account in the wheel group to remotely log into the machine, then su to root. or set PermitRootLogin yes in sshd_conf much easier. The fact that remote direct root login is disabled is a security feature, meant to prevent things like brute-force

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Jon Radel
Wojciech Puchar wrote: need root access, you should use a staff account in the wheel group to remotely log into the machine, then su to root. or set PermitRootLogin yes in sshd_conf much easier. The fact that remote direct root login is disabled is a security feature, meant to

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
meant to prevent things like brute-force attacks on root over the network. It's a bad idea to change that behavior, in general. Back when just another stupid myth. As is, of course, all security in depth. Hey, if you want everything riding on one password, more power to you, but you might

Re: [Bulk] Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread nepbabu
Thus spoke Chad Perrin on Sunday, 11 May 2008 at 13:58:46 -0600: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:50:46AM -0700, Dennis Flynn wrote: I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread Dennis Flynn
I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 About a day after install root login no longer works - even on the console. I see the following in /var/log/auth.log: May 10

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread अनुज Anuj Singh
Direct root login is disabled by default. are you able to login from your 10.11.12.104 as a non root user? What client software are you using on your 10.11.12.104 for logging on to your freebsd? On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Dennis Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread Mel
On Saturday 10 May 2008 20:50:46 Dennis Flynn wrote: I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 About a day after install root login no longer works - even on the console.

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-10 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Dennis == Dennis Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dennis I'm running FreeBSD wx.dennis-flynn.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Dennis About a day after install root login no longer works - even