Question: I would like to allow the root user to login through SSH on my Freedom 400x or Freedom 500x account. By default, this is not allowed. How can I enable this?
Software/Hardware: Freedom 400x or Freedom 500x server; SSH client
Answer: By default, the root user is not allowed to SSH into your Freedom account. This is done to provide an extra layer of security. If you need to allow the root user to login via SSH, you can enable it by editing your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file as root.
You will need to change this line:
PermitRootLogin no
to:
PermitRootLogin yes
After making the change, you will need to restart your sshd server for the change to take effect. This can be done either by identifying the process id number of your SSHd process and sending it a HUP signal, or using FATSI's process viewer to restart it.