sshd and pam
Maarten Sanders
maarfree at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 27 18:24:15 GMT 2005
Try first to login as a user who is member of group wheel and then 'su'.
See if that works, root login is mostly disabled for security reasons.
Maarten
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:53 -0600, cartman_step1 at spymac.com wrote:
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> On Wed Jul 27 7:49 , Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> sent:
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> >cartman_step1 at spymac.com> writes:
> >
> >> Just i have a question about ssh and pam .
> >> Trying to login on a machine with freebsd 5.4 from a machine in where i run
> >> fedora core 4 , i can't complete the operation .
> >> The error is sshd[449] pam authentication error . What does it mean?How i can set
> >> pam to permit to login to freebsd and control the machine remotely?
> >> I'm new to freebsd and i appreciate if anyone can help me to solve the problem .
> >
> >Are you logging in as root? That's disabled by default.
> >What kind of authentication are you using?
> >_______________________________________________
> yes i'm logging in as root , now i have understand , cause i can log in as a
> normal user . But then it's possible to log in as root , so i can administrate
> remotely the machine on the lan?
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