[ltp] OpenSSL, zlib, & OpenSSH - "Permission Denied"

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:32:30 -0400, Paul Otte wrote:
> Hey All, I think I've overlooked a step in setting up my SSH
> properly. I downloaded, configured, and compiled zlib-1.1.4,
> openssl-0.9.7b, and openssh-3.6p1 and appear to have no errors. But
> if I try to log in as root (even) to localhost, I get "permission
> denied"

OK. Please explain me in which points this is related to Linux on
ThinkPads.

> 
> I'm going through the README's and checking other sources such has
> "How To's", but I've followed the steps and get no errors. Oh, I did

How about good old man pages? From the sshd_config man page:

     PermitRootLogin
             Specifies whether root can login using ssh(1).

Regards,
Tino