Feature #387
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 9 years ago
h1. BIG SCARY WARNING!!!
Permitting root logins is a *+VERY BAD IDEA+*, please reconsider before continuing this guide.
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Unlike many Linux distributions, FreeBSD by default disables ‘root’ login over SSH, If you do need to enable remote root logins over SSH, using key-based logins would be a good idea; the more secure way of gaining remote admin access to your server would ideally be logging in as an alternative user and then using SUDO to perform any administrative tasks.
* First edit the SSH daemon configuration file:
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vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
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* Find this line:
<pre>
#PermitRootLogin no
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* and change it to:
<pre>
PermitRootLogin yes
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Basically you should have removed the hash ‘#’ from the start of the line (uncomment the line basically) and then change ‘no’ to ‘yes’, save the file and then restart the SSH daemon like so..
<pre>
service sshd restart
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And your done, you should now be able to login as ‘root’ over SSH on your FreeBSD server!