Comments on: Allow root account to use SSH (openssh)

By: Luis García

Luis García — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:20:05 +0000

That only would work on Solaris :-)

By: Rhea

Rhea — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:57:16 +0000

Hi,

I wanted to enable root login via ssh in my server, but couldn’t see the below file on the server. Please help.

/etc/ssh/sshd_config

By: Nick Wierdo

Nick Wierdo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:15:32 +0000

just do a ” svcadm restart ssh”

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:27:56 +0000

Most people would be wanting to know how to enable this, to secure their boxes. Perhaps the unknown asker doesn’t know how to use sudo or su properly so that you can log in remotely via a safe, unprivileged user account and then, once the connection is secure, issue privileged commands or switch to a privileged account? Or perhaps s/he wishes to have unrestricted access to the computer with no tracking of who issued what commands?

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:59:32 +0000

Mika,

It can be ssh or sshd – it depends upon your Linux distro. Redhat/CentOS/FC use sshd and ssh used by Debian or Ubuntu and so on..

HTH

By: Mika

Mika — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:04:56 +0000

Your command for sshd is incorrect – should be:
# /etc/init.d/sshd restart

You were missing the “d” for sshd