NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

Rob spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 22 03:09:38 PST 2004


Panagiotis Christias wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:05:33 -0500, Ivan Georgiev <georgiev at vt.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Just another thing ...
>>
>>If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my computer; if I
>>put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to the computer.
>>
>>How can I ssh and be a member of the wheel group?
> 
> 
> In that case, maybe "PermitRootLogin yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and
> restarting sshd would help.

For testing purpose, yes.
The default is "no". I think allowing root login in a not-secure
environment is a bad idea.

R.




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