Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:21:04AM -0500, W. D. wrote:

> Brand new install of FreeBSD 6.2.  Can't log in with PuTTY.

That is normal.  The default is to disallow remote login as root.
The normal procedure is to ssh in on a normal id and then do su.
You have to put that normal user in the wheel group.

////jerry


> 
> Remote PuTTY:
> Access denied Using keyboard-interactive authentication. 
> 
> At computer terminal:
> PAM authentication error for root from 192.168.XXX.XXX 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
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