SSHD Help?

[hackmiester / Hunter Fuller]

On Monday 13 March 2006 15:12, Huy Ton That wrote:
> I am sure I am lacking the technical knowledge to get this running but.  I
> setup (more like started) the sshd daemon.  Now I have this system setup at
> home and am just using it for experimenting.  When I try to SSH into it, it
> queries me for my user name, in which case I am logging in as root.
Bad, bad, bad! Don't log in as root!
> I key 
> in roots password (is this password the same as the main root password?)
Yes.
> and it returns permission denied, please try again.
Probably because you are logging in as root. Don't log in as root!
>
> I'm guessing I am not asking the right questions but I was under the
> assumption that the password would be the same as root or whatever user I'm
> trying to login?
It is... but by default FreeBSD doesn't let you log in as root, at least 
remotely.
> Any tutorials?  I'm going crazy :(. 
Your machine will too, if you log in as root. Have I made it clear that you 
shouldn't be logging in as root? :)

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