Putty does not accept root password

[James R]

Hi All. Glad to be part of your community.

I am very new to all of this (2nd day in fact) and i am trying to configure jails and set up a FAMP.

When i open session in putty im met with a login screen however when i enter root and then password it says access denied.

I can login in ok with a user i created however when trying to select a jail it says operation not permitted.

Can anyone offer some friendly advice as im loosing hair as we speak.

Thanks

James.

 

[BigDave]

Do you have the SSH service enabled under Services tab in the GUI?
It should have a check mark in the little box for "start on boot".

 

[dlavigne]

For security reasons, FreeBSD disables root SSH access by default. You should instead create a user account in the wheel group and use su as needed. Instructions for configuring this are in http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/jails.html#accessing-a-jail-using-ssh. If you're determined to SSH in as root, instructions on how to configure this can be found in Section 30.8.1 of the FreeBSD Handbook: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html.

 

[BigDave]

Under the settings (click the little wrench icon) and see how your settings are configured.

 

[James R]

Yep have SSH enabled.
That seemed to work i had not set up login as root password thanks.

I have however got another user "jRogers" (Part of wheel group) that logs in fine also but using commands
jls and jexec 1 csh
comes up with operation not permitted

 

[BigDave]

Try giving that user (jRodgers) the su designation (super user), but TBH that's a guess on my part...