RE: not able to login as a root

Ashish,

The only way to change the file remotely is by using SU as one of the users. The error normally means SU belongs to the WHEEL group. You will need to find a user belonging to WHEEL in order to sort this out. On a security note.... I would not recommend re-activating remote root access, SU should be all you need.

Regards,

Marc Towers

-----Original Message-----
From: ashish lewalkar [mailto:ashle25@yahoo.com] Sent: 11 March 2003 12:50
To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Subject: not able to login as a root

Dear openssh friends,

I am new to linux and remote administration. My root access for ssh got disabled mistakenly in the sshd_config configuration file. I come to know when I was restarted ssh.
Now I can't be able to login to my server through ssh and also can't be able to modify sshd_config to enable rootLogin.
I tried to login by another user it gets in, but on su it gives me error something like group is different.

Is there any way to get in to remote system or get access of root, please let me know.

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Remote server is wiht FreeBSD with telnet disabled

Regards
Ashish Lewalkar