ssh + su problem

[Will Parsons]

Michael Ross wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2014 21:42:23 +0200, Will Parsons <varro at nodomain.invalid>  
> wrote:
>
>> I have a problem in that I cannot su to root on a FreeBSD machine
>> remotely from a Windows machine.  Note that the user I'm logging in as
>> *is* a member of the wheel group (and I can su locally just fine).
>> Symptoms are:
>>
>> % su
>> Password:
>> su: Sorry
>> %
>>
>> Although I *think* the purpose of the sshd option "PermitRootLogin" is
>> to (dis)allow *direct* root ssh logins, I changed it to "yes" anyway
>> in sshd_config, but that doesn't seem to be the problem.
>>
>> I'm inclined to think this a server-side configuration issue, since I
>> get the same result whether I use Cygwin ssh or PuTTY to log in
>> remotely to the FreeBSD machine.
>>
>> Any ideas of what might be wrong?
>>
>
> Maybe a character encoding issue, any "special" characters in your root  
> password?

No - plain printable ASCII.

-- 
Will