How to enable root login over SSH on FreeBSD

January 17, 2017October 26, 2015 by Zilli

Firstly, You will need to edit the SSH daemon configuration file to enable this like so..

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
PasswordAuthentication no
UsePAM no
PermitRootLogin yes

Restart SSH daemon

/etc/rc.d/sshd restart