After 4.6 to 4.9, SSH Lockout

[Peter Risdon]

chael at southgate.ph.inter.net wrote:

>Hello,
>
>After upgrading from 4.6-STABLE to 4.9-STABLE (religiously following the Handbook), I could not login to a second or another ssh session. I still, however, have my current connection to where I performed the make world steps. This is a REMOTE machine and I do not want disconnect this current ssh session because of fear that I may not get a successful ssh connection again.
>
>Any ideas? Hope anyone can give a straight help. 
>  
>
Just an idea, but I've been caught by this before... Are you trying to 
log in as root? If so, you'll probably need to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config 
to permit root logins again (it'll have been overwritten).

PWR.