Re: SSH wont work

On 09/16/2010 06:21 PM, David Guntner wrote:
> [I generally dislike replying to one of your messages because of your
> propensity for including someone's E-Mail address on your attribute line
> when you reply to them, despite having been asked not to.  Please don't
> make me regret the decision to answer this time...]
> 
> 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

Or run msecgui and change that setting via GUI. Otherwise it will be
lost next time msec runs..

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Eugeni Dodonov