Root password not responding

[Chuck Swiger]

Yoo, Gene wrote:
> However, recently the root usner name and password, when entered
> correctly or incorrectly, does not login.  It gives me the message of
> Incorrect password or usnername.  Why has this suddenly started
> occurring and how do I fix this?

Change the line containing "PermitRootLogin" to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, 
and restart sshd on that machine.

It's better from the standpoint of security to always log in as a normal user 
and su (or run sudo), which is why root login via SSH is disabled by default. 
  However, there are circumstances where logging in as root is convenient...

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-Chuck