Re: SSH wont work

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Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> 
> ron@ron:/home/storage/Videos $ ssh root@tom
> root@tom's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.

Well, there's your problem.  Most systems are set up by default to have
the sshd daemon refuse a direct root login for security purposes.  The
normal way someone would get in to improve on the security would be to
ssh into the box as a regular user and then use su (or sudo preferred)
to switch to the root user at that time.  If you want to allow direct
root login via ssh with a password (instead of a key), edit:

/etc/ssh/sshd_config

Look for the line which says:

PermitRootLogin

It will probably already be set to "without-password" (which would allow
a direct root login with a key, but not with password entry).  Change
that value to "yes" (without the quotes, of course) and then it should
allow you to login that way.  Depending on how you've got ssh installed
on your machine, you might need to do a

service sshd restart

command as root to make the change take effect.

HTH.

               --Dave

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