[indiana-discuss] cannot ssh in as root to localhost

[Mark Phalan]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 02:16 -0700, Johnny Koen wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
> 
> I have just installed Indiana preview 2 and absolutely love it . I have
>  one problem though. I cannot ssh from my user in as root. I can "su -"
>  but ssh root at localhost does not work. ssh asks for the password but
>  does not accept it. I have changed the /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>  "PermitRootLogin yes" with no luck. The rest of the config. is default
>  Please help.

Why do you want to log into Indiana as root?

Root is set-up as a role in Indiana which means you can't login using
root, you can only 'su' to root with a user who has the root role
assigned.

-Mark