Re: [cobalt-users] Allowing default root SSH login

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 09:44  AM, Pizza Box manager wrote:

> We are currently installing our existing sites on a RAQ550r, thanks to 
> those who helped about the migration / CMU question.
> My problem now is that the Cobalt with this host provider does not 
> seem to allow login as root directly.
> The best thing is the provider just told us that have no clue about 
> how this works and how to enable login as root on SSH.

Edit the /etc/sshd_config file, look for where it says PermitRootLogin 
no and change it to PermitRootLogin yes. I believe you'll have to 
restart the sshd daemon for that to take effect.

> I know it's advised to login as admin and su to root - (do not really 
> know why though as we always do so in SSH and other providers we have 
> let us use a root login by default), but I need a direct root login in 
> SSH for tools like RSync apparently ?

I don't. I set up a cron to run as root and login to another machine as 
admin. That way when it does it's rsync thing, it has root privileges 
to sync everything.

> Does anybody know how to either enable root login in SSH on a Cobalt 
> 550, or how to login as admin as SU to root in the RSync command line > ?

I don't have a 550 so the sshd_config might be in a different location.

> Else I guess we could RSync from the target to the source instead of 
> the usual procedure - launch from source and SSH to target as root ?

Correct. That's the way I mentioned that I do it above.

HTH,
j