SSHD Help?

[John Cruz]

Weird, When I try my box with the wrong password it just says "Incorrect 
password". You must have killed the root account or something.


Huy Ton That wrote:
> I think somethings wrong because even when I log on root locally on 
> the box I get permission denied.  This is the correct password because 
> I am logging in as root when the machine boots up.  I'm aware of the 
> issues as logging in as root but it's just a machine I am using to 
> break over and over again for learning purposes.
>  
> On 3/13/06, *John Cruz* <cruzweb at gmail.com <mailto:cruzweb at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     SSHD will not allow you to log in as root (for security reasons).
>     There
>     may be a way to change it, but I don't reccomend it. Configure a user
>     account to be able to use the su command or install sudo, then log in
>     remotely as a user then su or sudo for administrative tasks.
>
>
>     Huy Ton That wrote:
>     > I am sure I am lacking the technical knowledge to get this
>     running but.  I
>     > setup (more like started) the sshd daemon.  Now I have this
>     system setup at
>     > home and am just using it for experimenting.  When I try to SSH
>     into it, it
>     > queries me for my user name, in which case I am logging in as
>     root.  I key
>     > in roots password (is this password the same as the main root
>     password?) and
>     > it returns permission denied, please try again.
>     >
>     > I'm guessing I am not asking the right questions but I was under
>     the
>     > assumption that the password would be the same as root or
>     whatever user I'm
>     > trying to login?  Any tutorials?  I'm going crazy :(.
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